LEUCOTHOE, or LEUCOTHEA (fab. hist.), the wife of Athamus, changed into a sea deity; see INO. She was called Masuta by the Romans. She had a temple at Rome, where all the people, particularly women, offered vows for their brother's children. They did not intreat the deity to protect their own children, because Ino had been unfortunate in hers. No female slaves were permitted to enter the temple; or if their curiosity tempted them to transgress this rule, they were beaten with the greatest severity. To this supplicating for other people's children, Ovid alludes in these lines;
Non tamen hanc pro flumpe sua pia mater adorat,
Ipsa parum felix, vasa suisce patris. Fast. 6.