Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Aenēid, Aesăcus

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Aesăcus

（Αἴσακος). The son of Priam and Alexirrhoë, who fell in love with Hesperia, the daughter of Cebren. While he was pursuing her, she was stung by a viper and died. Aesacus in his grief threw himself into the sea, and was changed by Thetis into an aquatic bird (Ovid, Met. xi. 750).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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