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You know how Pandareus' daughter, the tawny nightingale, 510 perched in the dense foliage of the trees, makes her sweet music when the spring is young, and with many turns and trills pours out her full-throated song in sorrow for Itylus her beloved son,...

Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus - Page 222
by Euripides - 1999 - 282 pages
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Heracles and Other Plays

Euripides - Drama - 2003 - 228 pages

...piece of material, In revenge Procne killed Itylus. her son by Tereus. The story of Procne's subsequent transformation into a nightingale is told at Odyssey...full-throated song in sorrow for Itylus her beloved son' (trans. EV Rieu). Itylus is described as 'sacrificed to the Muses' because he was the subject of Procne's...

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