In Greek mythology, L?t? (Greek: , Lato in Dorian Greek, etymology and meaning disputed) is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe:Hesiod, Theogony 403. Kos claimed her birthplace.Herodotus 2.98; Diodorus Siculus2.47.2. In the Olympian scheme of things, Zeus is the father of her twins,Pindar consistently refers to Apollo and Artemis as twins; other sources instead give separate birthplaces for the siblings. Apollo and Artemis, the Letoides. For the classical Greeks, Leto is scarcely to be conceived apart from being pregnant and finding a suitable place to be delivered of Apollo, the second of her twins.Karl Kerenyi notes, The Gods of the Greeks 1951:130, "His twin sister is usually already on the scene." This is her one active mythic role: once Apollo and Artemis are grown, Leto withdraws, to remain a dimHesiod, Theogony 406; "dark-veil

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