Iliad 24.602–604
Achilles urging the grieving Priam to eat
καὶ γάρ τʼ ἠΰκομος Νιόβη ἐμνήσατο σίτου,
τῇ περ δώδεκα παῖδες ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ὄλοντο
ἓξ μὲν θυγατέρες, ἓξ δʼ υἱέες ἡβώοντες.
Even lovely-haired Niobe remembered food,
though twelve children had perished in her halls—
six daughters and six sons in the bloom of youth.