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LYGURGE is Palamon's champion in The Knight's Tale. In Boccaccio's Il Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia VI.14, Lycurgus is Arcite's champion. Chaucer probably had in mind Ovid's mention of Lycurgus of Thrace (Met IV.22). W.C. Curry sees Lygurge as a man influenced by Saturn, accompanying Palamon, who is under Saturn's protection as Venus's knight. [Arcita: Emetreus: Palamon]

The form, the ME variant, occurs once initially, KnT 2129, and once in medial position, KnT 2644.

Boccaccio, Tutte le opere, ed. V. Branca, II: 421; W.C. Curry, Chaucer and the Mediaeval Sciences, 134-137; Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, I: 180-181.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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