Leto Giving Birth to Apollo and Artemis on the Island of Delos, Diana Scultori (b. 1535) after Giulio Romano.
Lord Phoebus, when she bore you – the goddess, Lady Leto,
Grabbing with her slender hands hold of a palm tree –
You, most comely of immortals, by a lake shaped like a wheel,
The odor of ambrosia filled all of boundless Delos,
The vast earth laughed, the deep abyss of the gray salt-sea rejoiced.
Φοῖβε ἄναξ, ὅτε μέν σε θεὰ τέκε πότνια Λητώ,
φοίνικος ῥαδινῇς χερσὶν ἐφαψαμένη,
ἀθανάτων κάλλιστον, ἐπὶ τροχοειδέϊ λίμνῃ,
πᾶσα μὲν ἐπλήσθη Δῆλος ἀπειρεσίη
ὀδμῆς ἀμβροσίης, ἐγέλασσε δὲ γαῖα πελώρη,
γήθησεν δὲ βαθὺς πόντος ἁλὸς πολιῆς.
The Birth of Apollo, Theognidea 5-10