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                    "reference": "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (ed. William Smith 1870), Wikisource | public domain",
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                    "description": "Proper name: PHILOMELA (Φιλομήλα). 1. A daughter of king Pandion in Attica, who, being dishonoured by her brother-in-law Tereus, was metamorphosed into a nightingale or swallow. (Apollod. iii. 14. § 8; comp. Tereus.) 2. The mother of Patroclus (Hygin. Fab. 97), though it should be observed that she is commonly called Polymele. (Schol. ad Hom. Od. iv. 343, xvii. 134.) 3. A daughter of Actor, and the wife of Peleus, by whom she is said to have been the mother of Achilles. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 558; comp. Peleus.) 4. One of the daughters of Priam. (Hygin. Fab. 90.) (<a href='https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology\/Philomela'>Wikisource<\/a> | public domain)"
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                    "description": "Phĭlŏmēla (noun F) : Φιλομήλη.\n* Lit., daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, and sister of Progne; she was violated by her brother-in-law, Tereus, and was changed into a nightingale: respondeo, Natas ex Philomelā atque ex Progne esse hirundines,Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 12; Hyg. Fab. 45; Ov. M. 6, 424 sq.; Verg. E. 6, 79 Serv.; Mart. 14, 75, 1.\n* Transf., the nightingale (poet.), Verg. G. 4, 511.\n* The swallow: mortalium penatibus fiducialis nidos philomela suspendit,Cassiod. Var. 8, 31.\n* The name of a play, Juv. 7, 92."
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