Latona
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1. Latona - Noun
2. Latona - Proper noun
Meaning
wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology; called Latona in Roman mythology
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"Latona for her intrigue with Zeus was hunted by Hera over the whole earth, till she came to Delos and brought forth first Artemis, by the help of whose midwifery she afterwards gave birth to Apollo."
Niobe, queen of Thebes, enters in the midst of the worship and insults the goddess, claiming that having beauty, better parentage and more children than Latona, she is more fit to be worshipped than the goddess.
The Niobe narrative appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book VI), where Latona (Leto) has demanded the women of Thebes to go to her temple and burn incense.
Latona Street used to be separated by I-5, but as kids we’d cross over the freeway for big adventures and to go sledding—back when it snowed in Seattle about a million years ago.
Diane Sue Latona, 80, of Tiffin, passed away Sunday morning, May 27, 2018, at St. Francis Home, Tiffin.
To punish this insolence, Latona begs Apollo and Artemis to avenge her against Niobe and to uphold her honor.