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Brewer's: Attic Bird
(The). The nightingale; so called because Philomel was the daughter of the King of Athens.
“Where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.” Milton: Paradise Regained , iv. 245–6.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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