Nī'o-be, n.

n. [Lat. Niŏba, Niobe, Gr. Νιόβη.] (Myth.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Upon this Niobe was struck dumb with grief, and remained stupid, for which reason, as was supposed by Cicero, the poets feigned her to have been turned into stone.