[607] ἰσάσκετο, here only, frequentative from *“ἰσάω, ἰσάζομαι”. According to one legend Leto and Niobe were once intimate friends, the daughter, like her father Tantalos, having been admittted to intimacy with the immortals, “Λατὼ καὶ Νιόβα μάλα μὲν φίλαι ἦσαν ἔταιραι”, Sappho, frag. 31 Bergk.