PANDARUS  , in

Greek legend, son of Lycaon, a Lycian, one of the heroes of the Trojan war . He is not an important figure in Homer . He breaks the truce between the Trojans and the Greeks by treacherously wounding Menelaus with an arrow, and finally he is slain by Diomedes (Homer, Iliad, ii . 827, iv . 88, v . 290) . In medieval romance he became a prominent figure in the tale of Troilus and Cressida . He encouraged the amour between the Trojan prince and his niece Cressida; and the word " pander " has passed into modern language as the common title of a lovers' go-between in the worst sense .