[199] Phryx erat Aurorae coniux; Tithonus, who was the brother, or, as others say, the son of Laomedon. Aurora admired him for his beauty, and conferred upon him the gift of immertality; but, not being able to prevent the inconvenience of old age, he found that life at last was an insupportable burthen, and desired to be changed into a grasshopper. By him Aurora had Memnon, who afterwards came to the assistance the Trojans, and was slain by Achilles.
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P. Ovidius Naso. The Epistles of Ovid, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the very best commentators both ancient and modern; beside a very great number of notes entirely new. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.
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