Canace

[ kan-uh-see ]

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Aeolus who killed herself at her father's command because of her incestuous relations with her brother Macareus.

Example Sentences

They were the sons of Iphimedia, some say, others, of Canace.

From Literature

Electra adorns Agamemnon’s tomb with her locks, and Canace laments that she had not been able to perform the same rite on her beloved Macareus.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakspere send their favorites perpetually to the woods for pleasure or meditation; and trust their tender Canace, or Rosalind, or Helena, or Silvia, or Belphoebe, where Dante would have sent no one but a condemned spirit.

From Project Gutenberg

The same may be said of the species of Canace, of which two forms are found in America, C. canadensis, the spruce-partridge, and C. franklini, and also of the Siberian C. falcipennis.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence the sun was in three degrees of Aries—confirmed in Canace's expedition on the following morning, when he was "in the Ram foure degrees yronne," and his corresponding right ascension was twelve minutes.

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