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Leto

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Canonical name
Leto
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Individual
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Aliases

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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Panopeus1 observation
·Remembered

Leto passed through Panopeus on her way to Pytho.

See evidence text
“‘And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain and covering some nine acres of ground. Two vultures on either side of him were digging their beaks into his liver, and he kept on trying to beat them off with his hands, but could not; for he had violated Jove’s mistress Leto as she was going through Panopeus on her way to Pytho. ”

Claims

2
·Simile

Leto proudly watches her daughter Diana stand a full head taller than the accompanying beauties.

See evidence text
“then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others, and eclipse the loveliest amid a whole bevy of beauties”
·Remembered

Leto is violated by Tityus while travelling through Panopeus toward Pytho.

See evidence text
“he had violated Jove’s mistress Leto as she was going through Panopeus on her way to Pytho”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Simile
“then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others”
·Reported
“Apollo, son of Leto, killed both of them”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 9

When they reached the water side they went to the washing cisterns, through which there ran at all times enough pure water to wash any quantity of linen, no matter how dirty. Here they unharnessed the mules and turned them out to feed on the sweet juicy herbage that grew by the water side. They took the clothes out of the waggon, put them in the water, and vied with one another in treading them in the pits to get the dirt out. After they had washed them and got them quite clean, they laid them out by the sea side, where the waves had raised a high beach of shingle, and set about washing themselves and anointing themselves with olive oil. Then they got their dinner by the side of the stream, and waited for the sun to finish drying the clothes. When they had done dinner they threw off the veils that covered their heads and began to play at ball, while Nausicaa sang for them. As the huntress Diana goes forth upon the mountains of Taygetus or Erymanthus to hunt wild boars or deer, and the wood nymphs, daughters of Aegis-bearing Jove, take their sport along with her (then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others, and eclipse the loveliest amid a whole bevy of beauties), even so did the girl outshine her handmaids.