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DEMOCION(ES). Democion's daughter killed herself after her betrothed's death. Jerome tells her story in Epistola adversus Jovinianum (Letter Against Jovinian) I.41 (PL 23: 271).

Dorigen thinks that Democion's daughter is an exemplary figure of chastity, FranklT 1426. [Dorigen]

Demociones, ME genitive of Democion, itself a variant of Latin Demotion, appears medially.

K. Hume, "The Pagan Setting of the Franklin's Tale and the Sources of Dorigen's Cosmology." SN 44 (1972): 89-99.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
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