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Leonatus
Leonatus (foaled in 1880 in Kentucky, died 1898) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
Background.
Leonatus was the son of Uncle John Harper's great racer and sire Longfellow, himself a son of the imported English stud Leamington. Leonatus' dam was the Daniel Swigert-bred Semper Felix, whose dam was by the great nineteenth-century American foundation stallion, Lexington, himself by Boston.
Purchased by the partnership of George Morgan and Jack Chinn, and thereafter stabled in Mercer County, Kentucky,
Mythology
- Sicilius Leonatus – Posthumus' father
- Posthumus' mother
- Posthumus' two brothers
Synopsis.
 Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal king of Britain, once had two sons, Guiderius and Arvirargus, but they were stolen twenty years earlier as infants by an exiled traitor named Belarius. Cymbeline discovers that his only child left, his daughter Imogen (or Innogen), has secretly married her lover Posthumus Leonatus, a member of Cymbeline's court. The lovers have exchanged jewelry as tokens: