Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Chelidonia

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Chelidonia

（χελιδόνια). In the island of Rhodes, when the swallows returned (i. e. in the month Boëdromion), boys, called χελιδονισταί, went from house to house asking gifts, professedly for the swallows, and singing a song that has been preserved in Athenaeus (viii. 360). The practice (χελιδόνια) was said to have been introduced by Cleobulus of Lindus at a time when the town was in great distress.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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