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n. - (Greek mythology) the last king of Troy.

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  • Once he discovered the gold and silver objects he called Priam's Treasure, however, Schliemann smuggled them to Greece.
  • From this time he was called Priam, a word which in the Greek language means "purchased."
  • Until archaeologists saw the axes in Moscow's Pushkin Museum in 1994, they were considered lost, along with the gold artifacts from the so-called Priam's Treasure.
  • Pyrrhus minces with his sword Priam's limbs, and Timon (IV. iii.
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