Niobe

created by KaZe JoNeS
(thing) by Girlface (3.1 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Fri Sep 22 2000 at 3:03:05
By John Donne.

By Children's births, and death I become
So dry, that I am now mine own sad tomb.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:26:44

Ni"o*be (?), n. [L. Nioba, Niobe, gr. .] 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.

 

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