Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 344
e {s. vi (?) B.C.^) says that, whenTithonos despite his Zeus-given immortaHty began to get gray-headed, Eos refrained from union with him, but tended him in herhalls with food and ambrosia (i.e. honey) and, as downright old agecrept upon him till he could not stir, shut him up in a… … Fig- 153- basket or a basket-cradle {Izknon) and slept like a baby (fig. I53)^the goddess transformed him into a cicala {tettixf. Confusion ^ Apollod. 3. 14. 3. But the parentage of Tithonos is variously given. He is alsodescribed as the son of Laomedon (//. 20. 237) by Strymo (schol. A.B.D. //.…
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