FromLatinAesacus, fromAncient GreekΑἴσᾰκος(Aísăkos).
Aesacus
- (Greekmythology) A son of KingPriam, either by the naiadAlexirrhoë or the seerArisbe, who interpreted the dreams of QueenHecuba when she boreParis and who mourned the deceased daughter (eitherAsterope andHesperia) of the river-godCebren; inOvid’sMetamorphoses transformed byTethys (Cebren’s mother) into a diving seabird (perhaps acormorant orScopoli’s shearwater) when he threw himself from atop a sea-cliff in grief.
son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter
FromLatinAesacus, fromAncient GreekΑἴσᾰκος(Aísăkos).
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Aesacus m
- (Greekmythology)Aesacus(son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter)
FromAncient GreekΑἴσᾰκος(Aísăkos).
Aesacus m sg (genitiveAesacī);second declension
- (Greekmythology)Aesacus(son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter)
Second-declension noun, singular only.
- “Aesăcus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Æsăcosou Æsăcus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page79.
- Aesacosu. Aesacus inGeorges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918),Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column202