Doth give consent to that is done in darkness.
Thom. Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (1597).
Hector, one of the sons of Priam, king of Troy. This bravest and ablest of all the Trojan chiefs was generalissimo of the allied armies, and was slain in the last year of the war by Achillês, who, with barbarous fury, dragged the dead body insultingly thrice round the tomb of Patroclos and the walls of the beleagured city.—Homer, Iliad.
Hector de Mares (1 syl.) or Marys, a knight of the Round Table, brother of Sir Launcelot du Lac.
The gentle Gaw´ain’s courteous love,
Hector de Mares, and Pellinore.
Sir W. Scott, Bridal of Triermain, ii. 13 (1813).
Hector of Germany, Joachim II., elector of Brandenburg (1514-1571).
Hector of the Mist, an outlaw, killed by Allan M’Aulay.—Sir W. Scott, Legend of Montrose (time, Charles I.).
Hectors, street bullies. Since the Restoration, we have had a succession of street brawlers, as the Muns, the Tityre Tus, the Hectors, the Scourers, the Nickers, the Hawcabites, and, lastly, the Mohawks, worst of them all.