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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Halcyon

Alcedonia—days of calm.
Riley’s Plautus, Vol. II. Page 306, where see an amusing note on this title; quoting Ovid’s Met., Book XI. Line 744.

Birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
Milton.—Odes, Hymn on the Nativity.