Crossword-Solution: TROYNOVANT
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| BRUTUS, city founded by | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
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greedy person
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Sentences with TROYNOVANT (5)
Will ye not yet take thought, and spare these men Whom else the blind and burning fire of fight Must feed upon for pasture? Guendolen, Had I not left thee queen in Troynovant, Though wife no more of mine, in all this land No hand had risen, no eye had glared askant, Against me: thine is each man’s heart and hand That burns and strikes in all this battle raised To serve and slake thy vengeance.
Not Locrine, Not he, found loyal to my love in vain, Hath brought the civic sword and fire of strife On British fields and homesteads, clothed with joy, Crowned with content and comfort: I, his wife, Have brought on Troynovant the fires of Troy.
Brutus built his capital city, and called it Trojanova (New Troy), changed in time to Trinovantus, now London; [Footnote: "For noble Britons sprong from Trojans bold, And Troynovant was built of old Troy's ashes cold" SPENSER, Book III, Canto IX., 38.] and, having governed the isle twenty-four years, died, leaving three sons, Locrine, Albanact and Camber.
Asaph, produced in Latin a so-called _Historia Britonum_, in which it was told how Brutus, the great grandson of Æneas, came to Britain, and founded there his kingdom called after him, and his city of New Troy (Troynovant) on the site of the later London.
Asaph, produced in Latin a so-called _Historia Britonum_ in which it was told how Brutus, the great grandson of Aeneas, came to Britain, and founded there his kingdom called after him, and his city of New Troy (Troynovant) on the site of the later London.