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Philomela   Listen
noun
Philomela  n.  
1.
The nightingale; philomel.
2.
(Zool.) A genus of birds including the nightingales.





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"Philomela" Quotes from Famous Books



... skill betwixt Pallas and Arachne. Transformation of Arachne to a spider. Pride of Niobe. Her children slain by Apollo and Diana. Her change to marble. The Lycian peasants changed to frogs. Fate of Marsyas. Pelops. Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela. Their change to birds. Boreas and Orithyia. Birth ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... stream that our whole soul pervades! What life from out our glances pours! Sweet Philomela's song, resounding through the glades, Ourselves, our ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller


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