. The swallow book; the story of the swallow told in legends, fables, folk songs, proverbs, omens and riddles of many lands . o terrible as almostto surpass belief. Procne had a little sonby the name of Itys. The sisters resolvedto kill the boy. As soon as Tereus dif-covered the plot he seized an ax and pur-sued the two sisters to kill them. As hewas almost upon them, they prayed to thegods to change them into birds. Procne IN LEGEND AND FABLE 29 at once became a nightingale and Philomelaa swallow. Tereus was also changed intoa hawk, which chasesother birds. In this manner theGreeks related th
. The swallow book; the story of the swallow told in legends, fables, folk songs, proverbs, omens and riddles of many lands . o terrible as almostto surpass belief. Procne had a little sonby the name of Itys. The sisters resolvedto kill the boy. As soon as Tereus dif-covered the plot he seized an ax and pur-sued the two sisters to kill them. As hewas almost upon them, they prayed to thegods to change them into birds. Procne IN LEGEND AND FABLE 29 at once became a nightingale and Philomelaa swallow. Tereus was also changed intoa hawk, which chasesother birds. In this manner theGreeks related theoriginof the swallow and of th(nightingale. In later cen-turies, the Latin poets ofRome (Horace, Vergil, andthe rest) often made reference tothis legend. Sometimes theysang of Procne as a nightingale, as in theoriginal Greek version, but more often theyreversed the ending of the legend andreferred to her as a swallow, andto Philomela as a nightin-gale. Thus Horace, inan Ode to Vergil in whichhe invites the poet to payhim a visit at his Sabinefarm, assures Vergil that pleasant weatherhas come by saying that the Thracian.
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