Pausanias Description of Greece 7.19.2

[2] Now the story is that once upon a time it happened that the priestess of the goddess was Comaetho, a most beautiful maiden, who had a lover called Melanippus, who was far better and handsomer than his fellows. When Melanippus had won the love of the maiden, he asked the father for his daughter's hand. It is somehow a characteristic of old age to oppose the young in most things, and especially is it insensible to the desires of lovers. So Melanippus found it; although both he and Comaetho were eager to wed, he met with nothing but harshness from both his own parents and from those of his lover.

[2] Now they say that once upon a time it happened that the one who was serving-as-priestess [ hierâsthai] for the goddess was Komaitho, a most-beautiful [ kallistē] virgin [ parthénos]. Melanippos—that was his name—was-passionately-in-love [ erân] with her. He was far better in good looks than others of his age. When Melanippos led the girl [ parthénos] to a degree of passionate-love [ erōs] that reached the point of being equal to his own [ es tò ison], he approached her father, seeking-permission-to-marry [ mnâsthai] her. Somehow old age has a way of opposing the young in very many things, and, most of all, it has a way of being insensitive-to-the-pain [ an-algēton] with regard to those who are-passionately-in-love [ erân]. That is how it was for Melanippos. Even though Komaitho was ready and willing to get married off just as he was ready and willing to marry her, the response he got even from his own parents, not only from the parents of Komaitho, was anything but gentle [ hēmeron].