Canace
Americannoun
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They were the sons of Iphimedia, some say, others, of Canace.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Men like Galba and Vespasian heard with great indignation from scoffing foreigners how, at Rome, they had seen the emperor acting Orestes or even Canace on the stage.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
Electra adorns Agamemnon’s tomb with her locks, and Canace laments that she had not been able to perform the same rite on her beloved Macareus.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The pictures of Pasiphae, Canace, Phædra, Myrrha, and Scylla, which are now in the Cabinet of the Aldobrandini Marriage, in the Vatican Library, were discovered in one of the bedrooms of the villa.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Canace, daughter of Aeolus, is named in the prologue to The Man of Law's Tale as one of the ladies whose "cursed stories" Chaucer refrained from writing.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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