Aesacus

== English == === Alternative forms === Æsacus, Aisacos, Aisakos === Etymology === From Latin Aesacus, from Ancient Greek Αἴσᾰκος (Aísăkos). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈiːsəkəs/ === Proper noun === Aesacus (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 Metamorphoses transformed by Tethys (Cebren’s mother) into a diving seabird (perhaps a cormorant or Scopoli’s shearwater) when he threw himself from atop a sea-cliff in grief. ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Aesacus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, s.v. “Aesăcus” “Aesacus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1] == Dutch == === Etymology === From Latin Aesacus, from Ancient Greek Αἴσᾰκος (Aísăkos). === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Aesacus m (Greek mythology) Aesacus (son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter) === Further reading === Aesacus on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl == Latin == === Alternative forms === Aesacos, Æsacos, Æsacus === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Αἴσᾰκος (Aísăkos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈae̯.sa.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.s̬a.kus] === Proper noun === Aesacus m sg (genitive Aesacī); second declension (Greek mythology) Aesacus (son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ taxonomic name: Ornithoptera aesacus → Dutch: Aesacus → English: Aesacus === Further reading === “Aesăcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Æsăcos ou Æsăcus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 79. Aesacos u. Aesacus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 202