Philomela

Phĭlŏmēla, ae, f., = Φιλομήλη.

• 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 (604); Hyg. Fab. 45; Ov. M. 6, 424 sq.; Verg. E. 6, 79 Serv.; Mart. 14, 75, 1.—
• II Transf., the nightingale (poet.), Verg. G. 4, 511.—
• • B The swallow: mortalium penatibus fiducialis nidos philomela suspendit, Cassiod. Var. 8, 31.—
  • C The name of a play, Juv. 7, 92.

Philomēla, ae, f. (Φιλομήλα), I) Tochter des athenischen Königs Pandion, von Tereus, dem Gemahle ihrer Schwester Prokne, entehrt u., damit die Schandtat unentdeckt bliebe, der Zunge beraubt, weshalb Prokne den eigenen Sohn Itys dem Tereus zum Mahle vorsetzte. Als Tereus die Frauen verfolgte, wurde auf ihr Flehen Philomela von den Göttern in eine Nachtigall, Prokne in eine Schwalbe, Tereus in einen Wiedehopf verwandelt, Ov. met. 6, 424 sqq. Mart. 14, 75. – Nach altattischer Sage wird Prokne in die Nachtigall, Ph. in die Schwalbe verwandelt, bei röm. Dichtern zuw. Ph. als Mutter des Itys gen., s. Voß Verg. ecl. 6, 78 sqq. p. 49 sqq. – II) meton., philomēla, ae, f., die Nachtigall, Verg. georg. 4, 511. Cassiod. var. 8, 31, 7: phil. sibilans (zwitschernde), Sidon. epist. 2, 2, 14.

Phĭlŏmēla, (13) æ, f. (Φιλομήλα), Philomèle [fille de Pandion, enlevée par Térée, son beau-frère, fut changée en rossignol] : Ov. M. 6, 424 || [poét.] = rossignol : Virg. G. 4, 511.

Philome'la

(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. 3.14.8; comp. Tereus.)

Philome'la

2. The mother of Patroclus (Hyg. Fab. 97), though it should be observed that she is commonly called Polymele. (Schol. ad Hom. Od. 4.343, 17.134.)

Philome'la

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. 1.558; comp. Peleus.)

Philome'la

4. One of the daughters of Priam. (Hyg. Fab. 90.) [L.S]

Philomēla ae, f

• , Φιλομήλα, a daughter of Pandion, changed into a nightingale, V., O.—The nightingale, V.

Philomēla

(Φιλομήλα). The daughter of King Pandion in Attica, who, being dishonoured by her brother-in-law Tereus, was metamorphosed into a nightingale. The story is given under Tereus.

Philomēla

The title of a Latin poem composed in the early Middle Ages, probably by a German monk, and giving in 66 elegiac lines the mimetic words used to imitate the sounds made by the different birds and beasts. The oldest MS. containing it dates from the eleventh century. It was ascribed by Goldast to a certain Albius Ovidius Iuventinus, who is probably an imaginary individual. The poem is printed with English notes in Peck and Arrowsmith's Roman Life in Latin Prose and Verse (New York, 1895). See an article by H. T. Peck on “Onomatopoetic Words in Latin” in Classical Studies in Honour of Henry Drisler (New York, 1894).

Philomela Philomela, daughter of Pandion

• outraged by Tereus: Paus. 1.5.4, Paus. 1.41.8, Apollod. 3.14.7, Apollod. 3.14.8
• changed into swallow: Paus. 1.41.9, Paus. 10.4.9, Apollod. 3.14.8