Quotes About Tithonus

Age weighs heavily on me, and the knees Buckle that long ago, like fawns, pranced nimbly. I groan much but to what end? Humans simply Cannot be ageless like divinities. They say that rosy-forearmed Dawn, when stung With love, swept a sweet youth to the earth's rim - Tithonus. Even there age withered him, Bound still to a wife forever young.

Was it possible this big, athletic godboy of war was afraid of spiders? Yes, it was. Lots of people were. She wasn't that crazy about them herself. But being around Tithonus had made her much less afraid of arachnids—and insects as well—than she might've been otherwise.