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Greek legend, one of the wisest of the Trojan elders and counsellors . He advised his fellow-townsmen to send Helen back to her husband, and showed himself not unfriendly to the Greeks and an advocate of peace . In the later story, according to Dares and Dictys, he was said to have treacherously opened the gates of Troy to the enemy; in return for which, at the general sack of the city, his house, distinguished by a panther's skin at the door, was spared by the victors . Afterwards, according to various versions of the legend, he either rebuilt a city on the' site of Troy, or settled at Cyrene, or became the founder of Patavium . Homer, Iliad, iii . 148, vii . 347; Horace, Epp. i . 2 . 9; Livy i. i ; Pindar, Pythia, v . 83 ; Virgil, Aen. i . 242 .