Tithōnus

, a son of Laomedon king of Troy, by Strymo the daughter of the Scamander. He was so beautiful that Aurora became enamoured of him, and carried him away. He had by her Memnon and Æmathion. He begged of Aurora to be immortal, and the godde granted it; but as he had forgotten to ask the vigour, youth, and beauty which he then enjoyed, he soon grew old, infirm, and ♦ decrepit; and as life became insupportable to him, he prayed Aurora to remove him from the world. As he could not die, the godde changed him into a cicada, or gra hopper. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 5 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 447 ; Æneid , bk. 4 , li. 585 ; bk. 8 , li. 384 .— Hesiod , Theogony , li. 984 .— Diodorus , bk. 1 .— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 1 , li. 461 ; ♠ bk. 3 , li. 403 .— Horace , bk. 1 , ode 28; bk. 2 , ode 16. ♦ ‘disc rep it’ replaced with ‘decrepit’ ♠ ‘Book 9’ replaced with ‘Book 3’