or Leucothea (fab. hist.), the wife of Athamas, changed into a sea deity; see Ino. She was called Matuta 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 lane pro flirpe tua pia mater adorat, Ipsa pavent falsis votis suos parentes. Fast. 6.