Chaon
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Etymology
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Proper noun
Chaon
- (Greek mythology) A character in Virgil's Aeneid: a Trojan hero, a companion or perhaps brother of Helenus, and the eponym of Chaonia and the Chaonians.
- 1997, Michael Paschalis, Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 132:
- Andromache informs Aeneas that Helenus named the region Chaonia after the Trojan Chaon (334-5).
- A surname.
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French
Proper noun
Chaon ?
- Chaon (a village and commune of the Loir-et-Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France)