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Aesacus
The son of Priamus and Alexirrhoë. He fell in love with the nymph Hesperia. She fled from his avances, but was bitten by an adder and died. Grief-stricken, Aesacus hurled himself into the sea, but was changed into a bird by Tethys.
Ovid XI, 759.