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Aesacus

Aesacus was a Greek mythological figure, son of Priamus and Alexirrhoe, who fell in love with Hesperia. She fled from him but was bitten by a snake and died. Aesacus, grieving, attempted to drown himself but was changed into a bird by Tethys.

Ovid XI, 759.

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