Philolaus (fil-o-lā'us)

[Gr. Φιλόλαος.] Lived in the 5th century в. с. A Greek philosopher, one of the chief of the Pythagoreans. Fragments of his works are extant. Philomela (fil-ō-mēʻlä). [Gr. Φιλομήλα.] In Greek legend, the daughter of Pandion, sister of Procne, and sister-in-law of Tereus. She was metamorphosed into a nightingale or a swallow. See Procne . Philomela. A novel by Robert Greene, published in 1592. The most beautiful, however, and best known of Greene's productions is his "Philomela" otherwise called "Lady Fitzwater's Nightingale," in honour of the Lady Fitzwater to whom it is addre ed; "being penned," as the author says in the dedication, "to approve women's chastity."