Lamia: An Eastern Queen Branded As A Child Eating Demon!

Horace, in Ars Poetica (l.340) imagines the impossibility of retrieving the living children Lamia has eaten:
Neu pranse Lamiae vivum puerum extrabat alvo.

Alexander Pope translates the line:
"Shall Lamia in our sight her sons devour,
and give them back alive the self-same hour?"

Lamia By Herbert James

In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia (Greek: Λάμια) was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. While the word lamia literally means large shark in Greek, Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet (λαιμός; laimos), referring to her habit of devouring children.