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LAMEADOUN, LAMEDON. Laomedon, king of Troy, was Priam's father. He engaged Apollo and Neptune to build the walls of Troy but refused to pay them when the work was finished (Met XI.194-220).

Lamedon's story is pictured in the windows of the Dreamer's room, BD 326-331. Phebus and Neptune are angry with the Trojans because of Lameadoun's fraud, Tr IV.120-126, and Troy will be burnt. [Neptune: Phebus]

Chaucer varies the form to suit the rhyme: Lamedon, BD 329; Lameadoun, Tr IV.124.

Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, II: 132-135.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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