I expect that these women were called “doves” by the people of Dodona [20.8,39.55] (Perseus) Dodona because they spoke a strange language, and the people thought it like the cries of birds;
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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