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The Odyssey of Homer

Note 85 — BOOK XIX

William Cowper translation · Edition 2

She intended to slay the son of her husband’s brother Amphion, incited to it by the envy of his wife, who had six children, while herself had only two, but through mistake she slew her own son Itylus, and for her punishment was transformed by Jupiter into a nightingale.

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