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of course i just remembered that Tithonus was the lover of Eos, the goddess of dawn—the same Tithonus to whom Zeus gave immortality but not eternal youth. a pretty clear lesson for mortals about the dangers of trying to live outside time. but still (according to Propertius), Eos "despised [Tithonus] not, nor suffered him to lie lonely in the chambers of the East.... [W]hen nigh Ind she laid her down to rest in his embrace she made moan that the day returned too soon"