aesacus
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Proper noun
- {{lb|en|Greek mythology}} A son of King [[Priam]], either by the naiad [[Alexirrhoë]] or the seer [[Arisbe]], who interpreted the dreams of Queen [[Hecuba]] when she bore [[Paris]] and who mourned the deceased daughter (either [[Asterope]] and [[Hesperia]]) of the river-god [[Cebren]]; in [[Ovid]]’s ''{{w|Metamorphoses}}'' transformed by [[Tethys]] (Cebren’s mother) into a diving seabird (perhaps a [[cormorant]] or {{vern|Scopoli's shearwater|Scopoli’s shearwater}}) when he threw himself from atop a sea-cliff in grief.
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