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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Aurora and Tithonus

The goddess Aurora loved Tithonus, a handsome hero. Therefore, she came to Jupiter: " Oh king of the gods," she says, "hear me! My Tithonus was not a god; a few years afterwards he will come to old age. If you will give the perpetual life to this man, I will always praise you." Foolish Aurora! You do not see the great danger of that gift. Jupiter gave Tithonus immortality, but that man, as long as he lives, he will grow old. He flees time; now pretty Aurora, Tithonus is not handsome. The body wrinkled and bent, he is no longer well; wisdom in spirit does not remain. What does Aurora accomplish? Will she be able to restore the form of Tithonis? She thinks and takes consultation: "Oh Tithonus, my love! You change into a cricket; then you will be able to babble without fault. You live from this woman in a cage, and you I always love."

Nisus and Euryalus

Aeneas lead the Trojans against the Rutulians. As long as it was night and the troops were sleeping , they were holding the leader of the Trojans in camp planning session. Beside these men Nisus and Euryalus, Trojan youth, dare to come. "Oh, great men". Says Nisus, "if you all send me with Euryalus beside the camp of the Rutulians, not alone we will kill many humans, but also much loot we snatch out of those camps; those truly have sleep." "I praise the spirits and courage of the rough youth!", Iulus exclaimed, that son of Aeneas. "Good-bye!"
Now Nisus and Euryalus come into the camp of the Rutulians. They kill one, then many another. Euryalus snatches one decoration, the other helmet. With this loot they flee. But Volcens, the leader of the Rutulians, saw those Trojans and another Rutulus call. He leads those men beside brightness that the helmets. Nisus sees and dares this man into danger to preserve the friend. He killed Volcens, but before that he killed Euryalus. Then they vanquished the other, Nisus; this man falls on top of the body of Euryalus.
By the tale of the woman Vergilius writes and by the Trojans he ought to the tale is perpetual.