POLIPHETE is the Trojan hero who, Pandarus tells Criseyde, is about to bring legal proceedings against her. Chaucer has invented this episode; there is no Poliphete in Boccaccio's Il Filostrato (1333-1339) or in Benoît's Roman de Troie (1184). Virgil mentions a Trojan priest, Polyboetes (Aeneid VI.484). [Creseyde: Pandar: Troilus]

Poliphete, which means "many entertainments," or "many feasts," may denote a frivolous person and occurs once in medial position, Tr II.1619, and twice in final rhyming position, Tr II.1467, 1616.