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Aesacus at AllExperts (280 words) |
 | Aesacus sorrowed for the death of his wife or would-be lover, a daughter of the river Cebren, and was transformed into a bird. |
| In Ovid's Metamorphoses (11.749-759), Aesacus is an illegitimate son of King Priam secretly born to the nymph Alexirhoe daughter of the river Granicus. |
| One day he catches sight of the nymph Hesperia daughter of the river Cebren, falls in love, and pursues her. |
| ASTEROPE : Naiad nymph of Cebren R. in Troad ; Greek mythology : HESPERIA (308 words) |
| ASTEROPE : Naiad nymph of Cebren R. in Troad ; Greek mythology : HESPERIA |
| He saw her by her father Cebren’s river bank, her hair loose on her shoulders drying in the sun. |
| The Nymphe, observed, took flight, as a frightened hind flees from a grizzled wolf, or a mallard caught far from the lake she’s left flies from a hawk. |
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