Leto
Called Latona by the Romans, was daughter of the Titan Coeus and Phoebe, and mother of Apollo and Artemis (Diana) by Zeus (Jupiter). The love of the king of the gods procured for Leto the enmity of Hera (Juno).
Persecuted by this goddess, Leto wandered from place to place, till she came to Delos, which was then a floating island, and bore the name of Asteria or Ortygia. Zeus fastened it by adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea, that it might be a secure resting-place for his beloved, and there she gave birth to Apollo and Artemis.
Leto was generally worshipped only in conjunction with her children.
Leucas or Leucadia (Santa Maura). An island in the Ionian Sea, off the west coast of Acarnania. At the south extremity of the island, opposite Cephallenia, was the celebrated promontory, variously called Leucas, 1 Leucatas, Leucates, or Leucate, on which was a temple of Apollo Leucadius. At the annual festival of the god it was the custom to cast down a criminal from this promontory into the sea: birds were attached to him in order to break his fall; and if he reached the sea uninjured, boats were ready to pick him up. This appears to have been an expiatory rite; and it gave rise to the wellknown story that lovers leaped from this rock in order to seek relief from the pangs of love. Thus Sappho is said to have leaped down from this rock when in love with Phaon.