英语词汇philomela的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Philomela. After Procne discovered that her husband, Tereus, had cut out her sister Philomela’s tongue and impris- oned her for years, Procne chose a terrible revenge. She killed their infant son Itys and served him to her husband for dinner. Tereus went into shock when told what kind of stew he had eat- en, enabling Procne to escape with her sister, but Tereus even- tually caught them. He was about to dispatch the sisters when the gods intervened and turned Philomela into a swallow be- cause she had no tongue and swallows cannot really sing, while Procne was turned into a nightingale because the nightingale sings the saddest of songs and Procne was condemned to al- ways sing sadly of the son she had killed so cruelly. Neverthe- less, since Roman times poets have confused the Greek myth and made Philomela or Philomel a universal poetic name for “nightingale,” when clearly the word should be Procne—though one must admit that a procne sounds prosaic at best and asinine at worst. T. S. Eliot is the latest great poet to make this mistake, in The Waste Land.

词汇	philomela
词源	Philomela. After Procne discovered that her husband, Tereus, had cut out her sister Philomela’s tongue and impris- oned her for years, Procne chose a terrible revenge. She killed their infant son Itys and served him to her husband for dinner. Tereus went into shock when told what kind of stew he had eat- en, enabling Procne to escape with her sister, but Tereus even- tually caught them. He was about to dispatch the sisters when the gods intervened and turned Philomela into a swallow be- cause she had no tongue and swallows cannot really sing, while Procne was turned into a nightingale because the nightingale sings the saddest of songs and Procne was condemned to al- ways sing sadly of the son she had killed so cruelly. Neverthe- less, since Roman times poets have confused the Greek myth and made Philomela or Philomel a universal poetic name for “nightingale,” when clearly the word should be Procne—though one must admit that a procne sounds prosaic at best and asinine at worst. T. S. Eliot is the latest great poet to make this mistake, in The Waste Land.
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