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Quotation from The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (Homeric)
“There he babbles endlessly, and no more has strength at all, such as once he had in his supple limbs.”
The Homeric Hymns, Hymn V, To Aphrodite, ll. 237-238, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
Aphrodite tells Anchises what became of Tithonus, given immortality but not youth, and shut away by Eos.
Citation: "There he babbles endlessly, and no more has strength at all, such as once he had in his supple limbs." — Anonymous (Homeric), The Homeric Hymns, Hymn V, To Aphrodite, ll. 237-238, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). (id homeric-hymns-q4)
