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Webster 1913 Edition

Niobe

Ni′o-be

,

Noun.

[L.

Nioba

,

Niobe

, Gr. [GREEK].]

(Class. Myth.)

The daughter of

Tantalus

, and wife of

Amphion

, king of

Thebes

. Her pride in her children provoked

Apollo

and

Diana

, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.