person
Niobe
also: Νιόβα
Queen of Thebes who boasted her fourteen children above Leto's two and lost them all; in fr. 142, before the catastrophe, simply Leto's dearest companion.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §142 Niobe
Queen of Thebes who set her fourteen children above Leto's two and lost them all to Apollo's and Artemis' arrows, weeping ever after as the stone on Mount Sipylus. Here, before the catastrophe: simply Leto's dearest friend.