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<blockquote>Book 11, On Man and Portents. Ch. 3: Portents. 30."</ref> "They [the Greeks] imagine that 'there were three Sirens, part virgins, part birds,' with wings and claws. 'One of them sang, another played the flute, the third the lyre. They drew sailors, decoyed by song, to shipwreck. 31. According to the truth, however, they were prostitutes who led travelers down to poverty and were said to impose shipwreck on them.' They had wings and claws because Love flies and wounds. They are said to have stayed in the waves because a wave created Venus."</blockquote> | <blockquote>Book 11, On Man and Portents. Ch. 3: Portents. 30."</ref> "They [the Greeks] imagine that 'there were three Sirens, part virgins, part birds,' with wings and claws. 'One of them sang, another played the flute, the third the lyre. They drew sailors, decoyed by song, to shipwreck. 31. According to the truth, however, they were prostitutes who led travelers down to poverty and were said to impose shipwreck on them.' They had wings and claws because Love flies and wounds. They are said to have stayed in the waves because a wave created Venus."</blockquote> | ||
Charles Burney expounded c. 1789, in ''A General History of Music'': "The name, according to Samuel Bochart, who derives it from the Phoenician, implies a ''songstress.'' Hence it is probable, that in ancient times there may have been excellent singers, but of corrupt morals, on the coast of Sicily, who by seducing voyagers, gave rise to this fable."<ref>Austern, Linda Phyllis, and Inna Naroditskaya (eds.) (2006). ''Music of the Sirens.'' Bloomington, IN | Charles Burney expounded c. 1789, in ''A General History of Music'': "The name, according to Samuel Bochart, who derives it from the Phoenician, implies a ''songstress.'' Hence it is probable, that in ancient times there may have been excellent singers, but of corrupt morals, on the coast of Sicily, who by seducing voyagers, gave rise to this fable."<ref>Austern, Linda Phyllis, and Inna Naroditskaya (eds.) (2006). ''Music of the Sirens.'' Bloomington, IN. University of Indiana Press, 72</ref> John Lemprière in his ''Classical Dictionary'' (1827) wrote, "Some suppose that the Sirens were a number of lascivious women in Sicily, who prostituted themselves to strangers, and made them forget their pursuits while drowned in unlawful pleasures. [The etymology of Samuel Bochart, who deduces the name from a Phoenician term denoting a ''songstress,'' favours the explanation given of the fable by Christian Tobias Damm.<ref>Damm, perhaps ''Mythologie der Griechen und Römer'' (ed. Leveiow). Berlin, 1820.</ref> This distinguished critic makes the Sirens to have been excellent singers, and divesting the fables respecting them of all their terrific features, he supposes that by the charms of music and song they detained travellers, and made them altogether forgetful of their native land.]" | ||
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