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sister of his wife Progne; the latter in 
revenge, killed her son by him, and served 
up the flesh at her husband's table. Upon 
the discovery of this horrid repast, Progne 
was changed into a Swallow, Philomela 
into a Nightingale, and Tereus into a 
Hoopoe; who still bemoaning his loss, 
screams where! where! where! my son! 
Ovid has the following lines relating to 
this circumstance. 
"Tereus, through grief and haste to be reveng'd, 
Shares the like fate, and to a bird is chang'd. 
Fix'd on his head the crested plumes appear; 
Long is his beak, and sharpen' d as a spear." 
