Cele'dones
(
*Khlhdo/nes), the soothing goddesses, were frequently represented by the ancients ill works of art, and were believed to be endowed, like the Sirens, with a magic power of song. For this reason, they are compared to the Iynges. Hephaestus was said to have made their golden images on the ceiling of the temple at Delphi. (
Paus. 9.5.5;
Athen. 7.290; Philostr.
Vit. Apollon. 6.11; Pind.
Fragm. 25, p. 568, &c. ed. Böckh; comp. Huschke and Böttiger, in the
Neue Teutsche Mercur, ii, p. 38, &c.)
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