In the _Troilus and Creseide_ of Chaucer, and the _Troilus and Cressida_ of Shakespeare, we have a story unknown to classic fiction. Chaucer pretends to take it from Lollius, but who Lollius was, has never been discovered. In this story Troilus falls in love with Cressid, daughter of the priest Chalchas, and Pandărus is employed as a go-between. After Troilus has obtained a promise of marriage from the priest’s daughter, an exchange of prisoners is arranged, and Cressid, falling to the lot of Diomed, prefers her new master to her Trojan lover. Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_ is not one of the _Canterbury Tales_, but quite an independent one, in five books. It contains 8246 lines, nearly 3000 of which are borrowed from the _Filostrato_ of Boccaccio. =Trois Chapitres= (_Les_), or THE THREE CHAPTERS, three theological works on the “Incarnation of Christ and His dual nature.” The authors of these “chapters” are Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, and Ibas of Edessa. The work was condemned in 553 as heretical. =Trois Echelles=, executioner.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ and _Anne of Geierstein_ (time Edward IV.). =Trojan=, a good boon companion, a plucky fellow or man of spirit. Gadshill says, “There are other Trojans [_men of spirit_] that ... for sport sake are content to do the profession [_of Thieving_] some grace.” So in _Love’s Labor’s Lost_ “Unless you play the honest Trojan, the poor wench is cast away” (unless you are a man of sufficient spirit to act honestly, the girl is ruined). “He is a regular Trojan,” means he is _un brave homme_, a capital fellow. =Trompart=, a lazy but wily-witted knave, grown old in cunning. He accompanied Braggadoccio as his squire (bk. ii. 3), but took to his heels when Talus shaved the master, “reft his shield,” blotted out his arms, and broke his sword in twain. Being overtaken, Talus gives him a sound drubbing (bk. v. 3).--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_ (1590-6). =Trondjem’s Cattle= (_Remember the bishop of_), _i.e._, look sharp after your property; take heed, or you will suffer for it. The story is, that a certain bishop of Trondjem [_Tron´.yem_] lost his cattle by the herdsmen taking his eyes off them to look at an elk. Now this elk was a spirit, and when the herdsman looked at the cattle again they were no bigger than mice; again he turned towards the elk, in order to understand the mystery, and while he did so, the cattle all vanished through a crevice into the earth.--Miss Martineau, _Feats on the Fiord_ (1839). =Tropho´nios=, the architect of the temple of Apollo, at Delphi. After death he was worshipped, and had a famous cave near Lebadia, called “The Oracle of Trophonios.”