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NICHANORE1. Nicanor of Stagira, c. 360-317 B.C., was the son of Parmenion. He was one of Alexander's officers (Arrian, Anabasis, I.14; III.25; Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History XVII.57). Jerome mentions a Theban maiden who killed herself for love of him, Epistola adversus Jovinianum (Letter Against Jovinian) I.41 (PL 23: 272).
The Theban maiden appears in Dorigen's list of virtuous women, FranklT 1432. [Dorigen]
The name occurs in final rhyming position.
Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, ed. and trans. E.I. Robson, I: 60-62, 308-311; Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History, ed. and trans. C.B. Welles, VIII: 280-281; K. Hume, "The Pagan Setting of The Franklin's Tale and the Sources of Dorigen's Cosmology." SN 44 (1972): 289-294.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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