ATHALANTE1. Atalanta, daughter of King Schoeneus of Boeotia, was famous for her beauty and for her swift feet. Warned by the oracle against marriage, she refused to wed any except the man who won the race against her. Helped by Venus, Hippomenes won by dropping three golden apples in her path, then passing her when she stooped to pick them up. She married him. Cybele changed the couple into lions when they slept together before her statue (Met X.560-707; OM X.2094-2437).
Athalante is one of love's martyrs, PF 286. [Atthalante]
The form, with final silent -e, occurs in final rhyming position, PF 286. Intrusive h after t was not pronounced.