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bald-head and long beard, may be the humanized TettjI. 

 He remarks that, " Tithonns, loved of the divine Eos 

 (or Aurora), forgetting to ask from her youth besides 

 immortality, became old, and old had to remain." 



" Me only cruel immortality 



Consumes : I wither slowly 



A white-haii-ed shadow roaming like a dream 



The ever-silent spaces of the East, 



Far folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn." 



as our own poet has sung. 



Some have thought that Tithonus perished into the 

 Tettix on hearing of the death of Memnon, — the son 

 of himself and Eos the Dawn. 



Plato, in the ' Phsedrus ' (262), cahs the Tettiges 

 Mouauv '7r§o(pvrai ; and reports Socrates as saying, "A 

 lover of music, like yourself, ought surely to have 

 heard the story of the grasshoppers, who are said to 

 have been human beings once " ; and then follows the 

 story of their rhapsody over music, and their deaths 

 through thirst and forgetfulness of eating. But now, 

 dear to the Muses, they hunger no more, neither thirst 

 any more, but are always singing from the moment 

 they are born; and in heaven they report to Terpsichore 

 of those who love the dance ; to Erato, of the lovers ; 

 to Cahiope, the eldest of the Muses, and to Urania, of 

 the votaries of philosophy ; and so to the others. 

 " For tbese two last are the Muses who are chiefly 

 concerned with heaven, and thoughts divine, as well 

 as human ; and they have the sweetest utterance. 

 For many reasons, then, we ought always to talk, and 

 not to sleep, at mid-day." (See Jowett's 'Plato,' vol. 

 X. p. 136). 



In the Imhoof collection there is another coin of 

 Caulonia of later date and finer execution. It repre- 

 sents Apollo with a Cicada (which was sacred to 

 himself) in the field. The nearly naked figure holds 

 a laurel twig in his uplifted right hand, and his 

 left extended towards a buck. There is no running 

 figure, as in the older coin ; but its equivalent possibly 

 is, as Mr. Dakyns suggests, the before-noted Tettix. 



