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Tithonus
Lover of the Dawn granted endless life but not endless youth; an example of mortality's limits.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.28 Tithonus
Granted endless life but not endless youth, then 'withdrawn into the breezes' — yet still mortal.
- The Odes §2.16 Tithonus
Whom 'long old age dwindled'—the opposite fate, equally a curtailment.