in fabulous history, was the son of Tithonus and Aurora. Having led his troops to the assistance of Priam, in order to raise the siege of Troy, he was killed by Achilles; when his body being placed on a funeral pile, was, at Aurora's desire, transformed into a bird.

Memnon of Rhodes, one of the generals of Darius king of Persia, advised that prince to lay waste the country, in order to deprive Alexander the Great's army of support, and afterwards to attack Macedon; but