Nightingales
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
nightingales
in the texts
Letters
Birds whose ceaseless song figures the expected eloquence of sophists.
but be silent it will by no means, being sophistic and Attic, no more than the nightingales when spring rouses them to song.
Orations
Birds referenced in the myth of mourning for Itys, used as a comparison for constancy of grief.
For they are said to mourn for Itys in the spring;