According to legend, Leto was loved by Zeus and persecuted by the jealous Hera. Fleeing from the goddess's wrath, Leto fled to Patara where she gave birth to her twins (Apollo and Artemis). In one story Leto is harrassed by some Lycian shepherds at a spring as they try to drive her away from the water.  She punishes them by turning them into frogs.  In another story, the persecuted Leto is aided by wolves who guide her to the river Xanthos where she quenches her thirst and washes her children. In memory of this occasion she changes the name of the country from Termilis to Lycia, "lykos" being the Greek world for "wolf".  This legend of Leto and the wolves existed for a long time in western Anatolia - still under the Roman Empire coins were minted depicting the fleeing Leto with her children. Some believe that the cult of Leto existed in Lycia prior to the Greek period and that Leto's name may be related to "lada" which is Lycian for "woman" or "wife".  Leto cults also existed in Halicarnaussus, Cnidus, Phrygia, Caria and Cilicia.

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