Canace

Incidentally, Humphries is best known for his translations from the Latin poets, notably Ovid, from whom most of the imagery in the poem comes; Actaeon and the list of dogs who hunt him "Laelaps and Ladon, Dromas, Canace", for instance, are from Book 3 of the Metamorphoses.

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And answer him in his language againe: as Canace does in her conversation with the falcon in _The Squires Tale_.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

Hymenaeus has not been deceived, for it appears from 61-62 'spes bona det uires; fratris [_Palmer_: fratri _codd_] nam nupta futura es;/illius de quo mater, et uxor eris' that Macareus had fully intended to marry Canace.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

It was a joke at Rome, that some one asking, when Nero was performing in Canace, what the emperor was doing; a wag replied.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

He impersonated Orestes matricida, Canace parturiens, Oedipus blind, and

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Laudamia duas, uiui functique mariti. parte truces alia strictis mucronibus omnes et Thisbe et Canace et Sidonis horret Elissa. coniugis haec, haec patris et haec gerit hospitis ensem. errat et ipsa, olim qualis per Latmia saxa40

The Martyrdom of Cupid Ausonius 1912

Like Chaucer's Canace, of sleep "She was full mesurable, as women be."

Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The pictures of Pasiphae, Canace, Phædra, Myrrha, and Scylla, which are now in the Cabinet of the Aldobrandini Marriage, in the Vatican

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

While the study of books was his chief passion, nature was his chief joy and solace; while his genius enabled him to transfuse what he read in the former, what came home to him in the latter was akin to that genius itself; for he at times reminds us of his own fresh Canace, whom he describes as looking so full of happiness during her walk through the wood at sunrise: --

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

Ladon, [41] having a slender girth; Dromas, [42] too, and Canace, [43]

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847