person
Procne
also: Daulias
The mother turned nightingale who eternally mourns her slain son Itys (Itylus); the 'Daulian bird' of poem 65, named for Daulis in Phocis.
Reading notes
- Carmina §65 Daulian bird
The nightingale — Procne (or Aedon) of Daulis — who forever mourns her slain child Itylus.