Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology . XXVI EOS, OR AURORA: LUCIFER. 167 he became transformed. By the story of Tithonos we wouldunderstand day, in its eternally returning course, fresh andbeautiful at dawn, wearied and worn at the close. Of Kephalos it is said that from love to his wife, Prokris,he resolutely withstood the advances of Aura, the goddessof the morning wind, and that the latter in revenge stirred updiscord between him and his wife. Another version of thestory is, that Aura caused him to kill his wife by mistake whenout o
Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology . XXVI EOS, OR AURORA: LUCIFER. 167 he became transformed. By the story of Tithonos we wouldunderstand day, in its eternally returning course, fresh andbeautiful at dawn, wearied and worn at the close. Of Kephalos it is said that from love to his wife, Prokris,he resolutely withstood the advances of Aura, the goddessof the morning wind, and that the latter in revenge stirred updiscord between him and his wife. Another version of thestory is, that Aura caused him to kill his wife by mistake whenout on the chase. Prokris, it would seem, jealous of her hus-bands meetings with the goddess, had secreted herself in athicket to watch them; but happening to stir, Kephalos caughtthe noise, and suspecting it to be caused by some lurkinganimal, hurled his spear, and slew his wife. Eos and Tithonos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion,the former widely celebrated for his beauty, and mourned forhis early death at the hands of Achilles. His dead body wascarried by his weeping mother to Ethiopia; and at Thebe
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