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kalamos
Kalamos ((ギリシア語:Κάλαμος); (ラテン語:Calamus)) is an ancient Greek word meaning reed or reed pen. The basis for this meaning is the story of the Greek mythological figure Kalamos, son of Maiandros (god of the Maeander river).
==Greek mythology==
A story in Nonnus's ''Dionysiaca'' tells about the love of two youths, Kalamos and Karpos, the son of Zephyrus and Chloris. Karpos drowned in the Meander river while the two were competing in a swimming contest. In his grief, Kalamos allowed himself to drown also. He was then transformed into a water reed, whose rustling in the wind was interpreted as a sigh of lamentation.〔Nonnos, ''Dionysiaca'', translated by le Comte de Marcellus in 1856. Eglinton 1964: 474.〕
Walt Whitman's "Calamus" poems in ''Leaves of Grass'' may have been inspired by this story.
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