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FLEXIPPE is one of Criseyde's nieces. Boccaccio does not mention nieces in Il Filostrato (1333-1339); Chaucer has invented the garden scene in which they appear, Tr II.813-819. [Antigone: Creseyde: Tharbe]

Flexippe is perhaps derived from Phlexippi, genitive singular of Phlexippus (Met VIII.440) and appears initially, Tr II.816.

G.L. Hamilton, ITC, 94; Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, I: 436-437.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
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