Χελιδόνων μουσεῖα

[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who do foreign and barbarian things. For the [term] 'swallow' [is] applied to barbarians; for it implies 'Thracian swallow'. And in what follows: "where the swallow squawks around Thracian lands."¹ And Euripides [writes]: "a mass of ivy was creeping up, a well-grown shoot, a swallows' museum."²