Aesacus

Aesăcus, i, and Gr. -os, i, m., = Αἴσακος,

• a son of Priam, Ov. M. 11, 762.

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).

Aesacus Aesacus, son of Priam

• Apollod. 3.12.4
• interprets Hecuba's dream: Apollod. 3.12.5
• on his wife's death turned into a bird: Apollod. 3.12.4