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GALATHEE. Galatea was the beloved of Pamphilus in the medieval Latin comedy Pamphilus de amore (twelfth-thirteenth centuries), a dialogue in three acts. Pamphilus Mauritianus is sometimes named the author.

Aurelius loves Dorigen for more than two years, as secretly as Pamphilus loved Galathee, FranklT 1110. [Arveragus: Aurelie: Dorigen: Pamphilles]

Galathee, derived from French Galatee, appears in final rhyming position; h after t was not pronounced.

P. Dronke, "A Note on Pamphilus." JWCI 42 (1979): 225-230; T.J. Garbaty, "Pamphilus de Amore: An Introduction and Translation." ChauR 2 (1967-1968): 108-134; ibid.,"The Pamphilus Tradition in Ruiz and Chaucer." PQ 46 (1967): 457-470.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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