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The dove So called because it delivered the oracles of Chaonia (Dodõna).
“But the mild swallow none with toils infest,
And none the soft Chaonian bird molest.”
Ovid: Art of Love, ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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