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CLEMENCE. The goddess Clementia had an altar without a statue in the middle of Athens. Here Theseus met the widows of the men killed in battle whose bodies Creon had forbidden to be buried (Thebaid XII.481-585). Boccaccio places the temple outside the city (Tes II.17).

Theseus meets the widows at the temple, outside the city, where they have been waiting for a fortnight, KnT 912-930.

Clemence occurs in final rhyming position, KnT 912.

Boccaccio, The Book of Theseus, trans. B. McCoy, 56; ibid., Tutte le opere, ed. V. Branca, II: 302; Roman de Thèbes, ed. Constans, I: 481-506; Roman de Thèbes (The Story of Thebes), trans. J.S. Coley, 229-240; Statius, Thebaid, ed. and trans. J.H. Mozley, II: 480-489.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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