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TITAN is the sun in Ovid (Met I.10) and Virgil (Aeneid IV.19, VI.724-725). Dante (Purg IX.l) confuses Titan, the sun, with Tithonous, Aurora's mortal lover, mentioned in Aeneid IV.584-585.

Troilus chides Titan, the sun, Tr III.1463-1470, because he has allowed the dawn to rise too soon. Chaucer indicates here the confusion between Titan and Tithonous.

The name occurs medially, Tr III.1464.


Chaucer, The Book of Troilus and Criseyde, ed. R.K. Root, 490; Dante, The Divine Comedy, ed. and trans. C.S. Singleton, I, 1: 86-87; Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, I.2-3; Virgil, Aeneid, ed. and trans. H.R. Fairclough, I: 404-405, 434-435, 556-557.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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