Editing Canens (mythology)

{{Short description|Roman personification of song}}
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In [[Roman mythology]], '''Canens''' was the personification of song.  A [[nymph]] from [[Latium]], she was the daughter of [[Janus]] and [[Venilia]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ovid|title=Metamorphoses Book XIV (A. S. Kline's Version)|url=http://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph14.htm|website=The Ovid Collection|publisher=University of Virginia}}</ref>

Because Canens' husband [[Picus]] scorned the love of the witch [[Circe]], she turned him into a woodpecker. Canens searched for her husband for six days and then threw herself into the [[Tiber]] river.  She sang one final song and then died.  They had one son, [[Faunus]].

==References==
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==Sources==
* [[Ovid]] ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 14.320-434

[[Category:Nymphs]]
[[Category:Personifications in Roman mythology]]
[[Category:Metamorphoses characters]]
[[Category:Music and singing goddesses]]
[[Category:Deaths by drowning]]


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