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From the Greek elements κῦμα (kyma) meaning "swell of the sea, wave, billow" and κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory". In Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene (1590) this is the name of a knight characterized by indecision and fluctuations of the will. He and his fiery brother Pyrochles symbolize emotional maladies that threaten temperance. The two brothers are both slain by Prince Arthur in Canto VIII.