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词汇 niobe of nations
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Niobe of nations. Byron called Rome or Italy the Niobe of nations because of her lost empire. Niobe in Greek mythology lost all her 14 children when she taunted Leto because she had only two offspring. Leto commanded her two children— Apollo and Diana—to avenge the insult and cause the death of all Niobe’s sons and daughters. Inconsolable, Niobe “wept herself to death and was changed into a stone from which ran water.”
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