singing of the swallow-song
singing of the swallow-song, which the Rhodian boys went about singing at the return of the swallows in the month Boëdromion; such a song is preserved by Ath. 8.360c.
The corpus record
χελῑδ-ονισμός
chelidonismos · ὁ
singing of the swallow-song
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.