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Moreover, Heraclite, even in thine own day thou mightest well have heard of the classic wailings of Philomel for Atys, or of consumptive Canens, that shadow of a voice, for her metamorphosed Pie, and have known that very crocodiles have tears: pass on, thy desolate definition hath not served for man.
Moreover, Heraclite, even in thine own day thou mightest well have heard of the classic wailings of Philomel for Atys, or of consumptive Canens, that shadow of a voice, for her metamorphosed Pie, and have known that very crocodiles have tears: pass on, thy desolate definition hath not served for man.
Blyth writes to me from Calcutta that there are some doubts about this bird. Ovid introduces it in his Fasti, L. vi. l. 139; and Tibullus in his Elegies, L. i. El. 5. Statius says Nocturnæque gemunt striges, et feralla bubo Damna canens. Theb. iii. l. 511. But Pliny, l. xi. c. 93, doubts as to what bird produced the sound; and the details of Ovid's description do not apply to an owl. Mr.
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