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
A doughter had this worthy king also That youngest was and highte Canace.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Canace and canache are both short in Ovid; all which may have helped to the inference for Candăce.
From Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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 Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
Pity runneth soon in gentle heart: the same is said of Theseus, in The Knight's Tale, and of Canace, by the falcon, in The Squire's Tale.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
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