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BIBLIS. Byblis was the daughter of Miletus, epomynous founder of the city of Ionia. Her mother was the nymph Cyane. Byblis had the misfortune to fall in love with her twin brother Caunus. He fled from her; she pursued him, weeping so continuously that the nymphs changed her into a fountain (Met IX.454-665; OM IX.1997-2530). Boccaccio mentions the story briefly in Tes VII.62.

Biblis appears in the temple of Venus as one of love's martyrs, PF 289.

The name occurs in initial position.

Boccaccio, Tutte le Opere, ed. V. Branca, II: 475; Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, II: 34-51; OM, ed. C. de Boer, III, deel 30: 269-282.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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