[225] The beauty of Tithonus was proverbial: Tyrt. fr. 9. 5 “οὐδ᾽ εἰ Τιθωνοῖο φυὴν χαριέστερος εἴη. εἵως”: in Homer “ἧος” is restored, no doubt rightly, but the later form may stand in the hymn, although the earliest instance of “εἵως” appears to be in a Thasian inscr. (end of fifth century B.C.); see Herwerden Lex. Graec. Supplet. s.v.
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