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  1. In Greek mythology, the daughter of Tantalus
  2. and wife of Amphion, the king of Thebes.
  3. Contemptuous of the mere two children of the
  4. goddess Leto, Apollo and Artemis, she died of
  5. grief when her own twelve offspring were
  6. killed by them in revenge and was changed to
  7. stone by Zeus.
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