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Classical Mythology and Ancient History > metamorphoses ~ classical mythology > metamorphoses of male persons into birds > metamorphoses of male persons into birds (first series) > Cygnus, son of Apollo, changed into a swan: because his friend Phil(l)ius refused to give him the bull captured by the help of Hercules, Cycnus, the son of Apollo, leaps off a cliff, and is changed into a swan (Ovid, Metamorphoses VII 371)

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97D16Cygnus, son of Apollo, changed into a swan: because his friend Phil(l)ius refused to give him the bull captured by the help of Hercules, Cycnus, the son of Apollo, leaps off a cliff, and is changed into a swan (Ovid, Metamorphoses VII 371)  

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  • ancient history
  • animal
  • bird
  • bull
  • classical antiquity
  • cliff
  • Cycnus (son of Apollo)
  • history
  • jumping
  • man
  • metamorphosis
  • mythology
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses 07
  • Philius
  • refusing (order, request)
  • suicide
  • swan
  • transformation

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  • 97D16

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