person
Priam
also: Priamus, Priamo
Last king of Troy, father of Hector, Cassandra, Helenus, and Paris. In De Divinatione he is the dreamer troubled by Hecuba's torch-dream and the wise king who, unlike his frenzied daughter Cassandra, cannot foresee the future.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §3.44 O house of Priam
Priam, the aged king of Troy, slain at his own altar when the city fell. His ruined house anchors the lament Cicero quotes from Ennius's Andromacha.