χελῑδ-ών, όνος, ἡ
(even of the male, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.151)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but masculine, metaphorically of men, Ion Trag.[[ 33, cf. Hdn.Gr. 1.25: _vocative_ χελιδοῖ, as if from a _nominative_ χελιδώ, 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 67, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 74, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1411 (_anapaest meter_), “Anthologia Graeca” 9.70 (3rd c.BC: Mnasalcas Epigrammaticus ] Refs 6th c.BC+], with variant{χελιδόν}, as in [[ “Anacreontea” 9.2 codex)] Refs]:—swallow, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.411, 22.240, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 568, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.22, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 14, etc.: πέδοικος χ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 53, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 714 (anap): proverbial, μία χ. ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 33 (compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1098a18); δεῖσθαι δ᾽ ἔοικεν οὐκ ὀλίγων χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1417, compare 1681 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χ. λευκή, of a rare event, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 39 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; the twittering of the swallow was proverbial used of barbarous tongues by the Greeks, εἴπερ ἐστὶ μὴ χελιδόνος δίκην ἀγνῶτα φωνὴν βάρβαρον κεκτημένη [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1050: hence ὁ χ.,] Refs 4th c.BC+] ={ὁ βάρβαρος}, Ion [same place]; Θρῃκία χ. ἐπὶ βάρβαρον ἑζομένη πέταλον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 681 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χελιδόνων μουσεῖα bowers that ring with poetasters' twitterings, [[[prev. work] 93 (parodied from ἀηδόνων μουσεῖα in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus, see “fragment” 88). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]