(), a son of Laomedon, and brother of Priam (Hom. Il. 20.237), or according to others (Serv. ad
Virg. Georg. 1.447, 3.48), a brother of Laomedon. Others, again, call him a son of
Cephalus and Eos. (Apollod. 3.14.3.) By the prayers of Eos
who loved him he obtained from the immortal gods immortality, but not eternal youth, in
consequence of which he completely shrunk together in his old age, whence an
old decrepit man was proverbially called Tithonus. (Hom. Hymn. in Ven. 219
; Hes. Theog. 984 ;Apollod. 3.12.4 ; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 18 ;Hor. Carm. 1.28. 8; Ov. Fast.
1.461.)