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Asaeus

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In Greek mythology, Asaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀσαῖον) was an Achaean warrior who was slain in the Trojan War by the hero Hector, son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“Hector, Priam's son, when Zeus vouchsafed him glory? Asaeus first, and Autonous, and Opites and Dolops, son of Clytius, and Opheltius, and Agelaus, and Aesymnus, and Orus, and Hipponous, staunch in fight. These leaders of the Danaans he slew and thereafter fell upon the multitude,”
Il. 11.300–304

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