Lēda | Lēdē, ēs | Lēdaeus, a, um (noun F) : and , , , = Λήδα
* The daughter of Thestius, and wife of Tyndarus; she bore by Jupiter, who visited her in the form of a swan, two eggs, from one of which came Pollux and Helen, and from the other Castor and Clytemnestra, Ov. H. 17, 55; id. M. 6, 109; Hyg. Fab. 77: pueri Ledae,i. e. Castor and Pollux,Hor. C. 1, 12, 25.—She was deified after her death, under the name of Nemesis, Lact. 1, 21: Lede,Ov. Am. 1, 10, 3: chironomon Ledam saltare, i. e. in the part of Leda in a pantomime, Juv. 6, 63.—Hence
* Adj., of or belonging to Leda, Ledaean.
* Lit.: Ledaei dei,i. e. Castor and Pollux,Ov. F. 1, 706; also, Lacones,Mart. 1, 37, 2: Helena,Verg. A. 7, 364: Hermione (as granddaughter of Leda),id. ib. 3, 328: ovum,a swan's egg,Mart. 8, 33, 21; cf. olores,id. 1, 54, 8: Timavus, because Castor, on the return of the Argonauts, let his horse Cyllarus drink of it,id. 4, 25, 5; cf. Cyllarus,Stat. S. 1, 1, 54: astrum,i. e. Castor and Pollux,Mart. 8, 21, 5.
* Poet., transf.
* Spartan: Phalantum,Tarentum, founded by the Spartan Phalantus,Mart. 8, 28, 3: gurges,i. e. of the Eurotas,Stat. S. 2, 6, 45.
* Amyclaean (because Castor and Pollux were born at Amyclae): Xanthippus,Sil. 4, 358.