Philomela (Φιλομήλα) combines the Greek philos (loving) and melos (song) — "lover of song." In Greek myth, Philomela was the Athenian princess transformed into a nightingale after her terrible suffering — she became the symbol of poetic voice through grief.
Featured in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
Philomela reduces to five — the number of Greek nightingale.