Note 29 — SAPPHO TO PHAON.[1]
Reading edition
Scrope's translation:
Of Tereus she complains, and I of thee.—Wakefield.
Tereus married Progne, and afterwards fell in love with her sister Philomela. Both sisters conspired to revenge themselves upon him. They killed Itys, his son by Progne, gave him some of the flesh to eat. When, with savage exultation, they revealed the truth to him, and he was about to slay them, Progne was changed into a swallow, and Philomela into a nightingale.