Brewer's: Teucer

Brother of Ajax the Greater, who went with the allied Greeks to the siege of Troy. On his return home, his father banished him the kingdom for not avenging on Ulysses the death of his brother. (Homer: Iliad.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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