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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421 PDFMarkdown

Fragments on Birdsong by Assembly of the Birds

No record of a work titled Fragments on Birdsong attributed to an author or collective named Assembly of the Birds exists in standard scholarly sources. Later catalogues describe it as a verse work, but no substantive details regarding its content, origin, or transmission are attested. The label "Fragments" implies the text survives incompletely, possibly through quotation by a later author, but no such sources or identifiable excerpts are documented. Consequently, the work's historical or literary significance cannot be assessed due to the complete absence of corroborating evidence in the extant record.

... προσίπτανθʼ ὅθʼ ἀηδονίς
θηρεύειν ἀκοὴν Διός
ἀνάρθροις μινυρίσμασιν
μελίχρως ἐδίδαξεν.
καὶ γὰρ κόσσυφος ἀγκαλεῖ
λάβρως εὐκέλαδον μέλος·
φθόγγοις οὖλον ὑποκρέκων
ἦλθε μουσικὸς ὄρνις.
… λον ψιθυρο
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