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CONIGASTE. Conigastus, fl. sixth century A.D., was addressed by Cassiodorus as Cunigast, vir illustris, "illustrious man," in a letter ordering him to administer justice to his poor neighbors (Epistola VIII.28).

Boethius has challenged Conigaste many times for fleecing the poor, Bo I, Prosa 4.56. [Boece: Cassidore: Trygwille]

Conigaste is a modification of French Congaste in Jean de Meun's Li Livres de confort de philosophiae.

Cassidorus, Epistolae Theodoricianae variae, ed. Th. Mommsen, 25; V.L. Dedeck-Héry, "Boethius' De consolatione by Jean de Meun." MS 14 (1952): 177.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
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