[367] Pindar, Olymp. i. 45. Compare the sentiment of Iphigeneia in Euripidês, Iph. Taur. 387.
[368] Sapphô (Fragm. 82, Schneidewin)—
Λατὼ καὶ Νιόβα μάλα μὲν φίλαι ἦσαν ἑταῖραι.
Sapphô assigned to Niobê eighteen children (Aul. Gell. N. A. iv. Δ. xx. 7); Hesiod gave twenty; Homer twelve (Apollod. iii. 5).
The Lydian historian Xanthus gave a totally different version both of the genealogy and of the misfortunes of Niobê (Parthen. Narr. 33).
[369] Ovid, Metam. vi. 164-311. Pausan. i. 21, 5; viii. 2, 3.
[370] Apollôn. Rhod. ii. 358, and Schol.; Ister. Fragment. 59, Dindorf; Diodôr. iv. 74.
[371] Diodôr. iv. 74.
[372] Pausanias (vi. 21, 7) had read their names in the Hesiodic Eoiai.
[373] Pindar, Olymp. i. 140. The chariot race of Pelops and Œnomaus was represented on the chest of Kypselus at Olympia: the horses of the former were given as having wings (Pausan. v. 17, 4). Pherekydês gave the same story (ap. Schol. ad Soph. Elect. 504).