Leda, in Greek Mythology, the wife of the Spartan king Tyndareus, whom Jupiter visited in the disguise of a swan. The commonest legend makes her the mother of both Castor and Pollux (q.v.) by the god. The story has supplied a theme for many works of art.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 554
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