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Niobe's sons in a sentence

1. Accordingly, Apollo killed Niobe's sons, and Artemis her daughters.

2. Envious of Niobe, the wife of her husband's brother Amphion, who had six sons and six daughters, she formed the plan of killing the eldest of Niobe's sons, but by mistake slew her own son Itylus.

3. Will any one deny this? Using arrows, Artemis killed Niobe's daughters and Apollo killed Niobe's sons.

4. In his archaic role as bringer of diseases and death, Apollo with his poison arrows killed Niobe's sons and Artemis with her poison arrows killed Niobe's daughters.

5. Envious of Niobe, the wife of her husband's brother Amphion, who had six sons and six daughters, Aedon formed the plan of killing the eldest of Niobe's sons, but by mistake slew her own son Itylus.