Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    The nightingale

    animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    the nightingale · nightingale · her · one of the smallest of the little birds · songstress · sweetly singing bird · the dun nightingale

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Nightingale2 mentions

    Helen (Greek) · Works and Days (Greek)

    Let me call on you, beneath leafy haunts, sitting in your place of song, you, the most sweetly singing bird, tearful nightingale, oh, come, trilling through your tawny throat, to aid me in my lament, as I sing the piteous woes of Helen and the tearful fate of Trojan women under the Achaeans’ spears;
    helen

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    A bird known for its song at dawn, mentioned as another creature the other birds ignore.

    Yet the birds have no wish to look upon the peacock while it adorns itself with all this, nor, when they hear the voice of the nightingale singing at dawn, are they at all moved towards her;
    oration 12

    HelenClassical · Greek

    The nightingale, invoked by the Chorus as a model of mournful song to accompany their lament.

    Let me call on you, beneath leafy haunts, sitting in your place of song, you, the most sweetly singing bird, tearful nightingale, oh, come, trilling through your tawny throat, to aid me in my lament, as I sing the piteous woes of Helen and the tearful fate of Trojan women under the Achaeans’ spears;
    helen

    Works and DaysClassical · Greek

    A songbird seized by the hawk in the fable, crying out in pain as she is carried off, addressed by the hawk as 'Miserable thing'.

    Thus said the hawk to the nightingale with speckled neck, while he carried her high up among the clouds, gripped fast in his talons, and she, pierced by his crooked talons, cried pitifully.
    works and days

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    A songbird invoked in Penelope's simile, mythically the transformed mother mourning the child she killed by mistake.

    As the dun nightingale, daughter of Pandareus, sings in the early spring from her seat in shadiest covert hid, and with many a plaintive trill pours out the tale how by mishap she killed her own child Itylos, son of king Zethos, even so does my mind toss and turn in its uncertainty whether I ought to stay with my son here, and safeguard my substance, my bondsmen, and the greatness of my house, out …
    chapter 19

    Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

    A small speaking bird that teaches the bird-catcher three commandments and exposes his folly.

    But the nightingale said to him:
    chapter 10
    When the bird-catcher heard this, he was overcome with grief, regretting that the nightingale had escaped his hands;
    chapter 10
    He used to say that the worshippers of idols are like a bird-catcher who caught one of the smallest of the little birds—they call it a nightingale.
    chapter 10