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Tithonus

also: Τίθωνος, Τίθωνον

Trojan prince beloved of the dawn-goddess Eos, who won him immortality but not unaging youth, so he withered forever beside an unwithering wife. The cautionary kernel of fr. 58, the Tithonus poem.

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