person
Hector
also: Hector
The Trojan hero of Homer's Iliad; here the speaker of a line from a Roman tragedy (probably Naevius's) quoted by Cicero, who praises being praised 'by a praised man.'
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §3.44 in want of your help, Hector
Hector, the Trojan champion and son of Priam; the appeal is spoken by Andromache (in Ennius's Andromacha) bereft after Troy's fall. The quoted laments illustrate genuine, overwhelming grief that pleasure cannot touch.