Niobe:

(Gr. myth.) the Queen of Thebes and the typeof sorrowing womanhood; all her children were killedby Apollo and Diana,and Zeus changed her into astone,which always shed tears during the summer.（希腊神话）尼俄柏，提比斯王后，她的儿女全被阿波罗和黛安娜杀死，宙斯把她变成一块岩石，每到夏天就流眼泪，因此被当做伤心女人的典型。
△Ham.1.2.149:“Like Niobe,all tears”，像尼俄柏似的，哭成个泪人儿。