Echo, a nymph whom Zeus employed to talk incessantly to Hera in order to keep her from observing his infidelities. The goddess discovering his artifice, changed Echo from a nymph into a mere echo. She next fell in love with Narcissus, but finding her love unreturned, pined away in hopeless grief till nothing but her voice remained.
Echo
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 182
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