animal
Nightingale
Nightingale as an animal people have named and used. Night song, hidden throat, long wake — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Roman religion
Nightingale appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History records the nightingale among songbirds of Roman encyclopedic speech. A named nightingale in that encyclopedia, not Philomela as a minted being id and not a modern poetry dump alone.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
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Hellenic religion
Nightingale appears in Hellenic religion.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 6 turns Philomela into a nightingale after the Thracian revenge. A named nightingale metamorphosis in that poem, not a generic songbird dump and not swallow/hoopoe as the same sister-forms.
from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE
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Nightingale is historically related to Wool.
In Burnell's Hobson-Jobson, Nightingale is treated with Wool; piece and peer stock share the entry.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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Nightingale is historically related to Oil.
In al's Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), Nightingale is placed beside Oil as concrete shop companions.
from Hugh Chisholm et al. · Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1910–1911
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sources
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Metamorphoses · Ovid
Ovid, Metamorphoses.
- Hobson-Jobson · Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke)
Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson (new ed. William Crooke, 1903).
- Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) · Hugh Chisholm et al.
Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition (1910–1911).