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 | | Even the claim to a mere five hundred men from the margins of the world says something, and Ocnus is a Greek word for hesitancy, indolence or shrinking, that suits the endless windings of the Mantuan river. |
 | | Furthermore, when Phaethon fell from heaven and his sisters lamented him inconsolably, they were turned into the amber-weeping poplar trees of the Po valley, and the crest-feathered Cunerus, Phaethon's brother, sang about him in their shadow to the stars until in white old age he was turned into the constellation Cycnus, the Swan (Aen. |
 | | Cycnus and Ocnus are similar words, and perhaps for Virgil Ocnus is the name of some fabulously beautiful and shy heron of the river Mincius or the Po. |
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