The  Egyptians  differed  a  little  from  the  Greeks,  and
supposed  her  to  be  the  nurse  and  grandmother  of  Ho-
rns and  Bnbaatia,  their  Apollo  ana  Diana  {Herad.^  8,
in  whidi  they  agree  mote  exactly  with  tbe  an-
cient nataraliste,  who  heic)  that  hetit  waa  nourished  by
the  humidity  of  night.  {Macrob.,  Sal-t  1,  23.)  Her
symbol  was  the  Mygsle  or  Mas  Araneus,  anciently
supposed  to  be  blind  {Plut.,  Sympoi.,  4,  p.  S70. —
AiUon-t  lateral.  Fab.,  28) ;  but  ahe  is  usually  repre- '
aented  upon  the  monumenta  of  ancient  art  nnder  the
forni  of  a  large  and  comely  woman,  with  a  veil  upon',
her  head.  This  veil,  in  painting,  was  alwaya  black  :
and  in  gems  the  artisls  gvnenllj  availed  themselves  ofa
dark'Colourcd  vein  in  the  stone  to  cypress  il ;  it  being
the  eame  as  that  which  was  usually  thrown  over  the
symbol  of  the  generative  attribute  to  signify  the  nutri-
tive power  of  night  fostering  the  productive  power  of
the  pervading  spirit ;  whence  Priapus  is  called  in  the
poeta  biuek^tmkeA.  {Mtudt.,  Epitaph.  Bim.,  37.)
The  nil  ia-ofteii  stellated.  {Knight,  Inquiry  imo  the '
Symb.  Lang,,  See.,  ^  97. — CUum.  Joum.,  vol.  2%,  p.
S14.)

LATOPdLis,  a  city  of  Egypt  in  tbeThebatd,  between
Thebes  and  ApoHinopol  is  Magna.  It  derived  its  Greek
name  from  the  fish  I^atos*  worahipped  there,  which
was  regarded  as  the  largest  of  all  the  fiahes  of  the  Nile.
