1. Lēda — Lewis & Short
Lēda, ae, and Lēdē, ēs, f., = *lh/da,
I 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,
II Lēdaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Leda, Ledæan.
A 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.—
B Poet., transf.
1 Spartan:
Phalantum,Tarentum, founded by the Spartan Phalantus, Mart. 8, 28, 3:
gurges,i. e. of the Eurotas, Stat. S. 2, 6, 45. —
2 Amyclæan (because Castor and Pollux were born at Amyclæ):
Xanthippus,Sil. 4, 358.