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  1. In classical legend, a Trojan prince who
  2. became the ancestral hero of the Romans.
  3. According to Homer, he was the son of
  4. Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. During
  5. the Trojan War he owed his life several times
  6. to the intervention of the gods. Virgil's
  7. epic poem the Aeneid is based on this legend.
  8.