A nymph, wife of Picus, King of the Laurentēs. When Circê had changed Picus into a bird, Canens lamented him so greatly that she pined away, till she became a vox et prœterca nihil. (Ovid: Metamorphoses, 14 fab. 9.)
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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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