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|btext=ης (ἡ) :<br />Niobé. | |btext=ης (ἡ) :<br />Niobé. | ||
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|auten=[[Niobe]], [[daughter]] of [[Tantalus]] and [[wife]] of Amphīon, [[king]] of [[Thebes]]. Her [[six]] sons were [[slain]] by the arrows of [[Apollo]], and her [[six]] daughters by the arrows of [[Artemis]], [[because]] she had presumed to [[compare]] her children [[with]] those of [[Leto]]. [[Niobe]] in [[grief]] [[was]] changed [[into]] [[stone]], a [[legend]] [[that]] connects itself [[with]] a [[natural]] [[conformation]] in the [[rock]] of Mt. [[Sipylus]], [[which]] resembles a [[woman]] in a [[sitting]] [[posture]], Il. 24.602, 606. | |||
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