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Hector's son
Answer for the clue "Hector's son ", 8 letters:
astyanax
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
son of Hector and Andromache ("Iliad"), Greek, literally "lord of the city," from asty "city" (see asteism ) + anax "chief, lord, master." Also the epithet of certain gods.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Astyanax is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae of the order Characiformes . Some of these fish, like many of their relatives, are kept as aquarium pets and known collectively as tetras . With around 150 described species and new ones being ...
Usage examples of astyanax.
The divine Homer is the only poet who has succeeded in delineating it in those lines in which he describes Andromache with the young Astyanax in her arms, when Hector is leaving her to return to the battle.
If her skin was flayed off her, Astyanax would never look at her again!
The artist had caught Hector in the act of giving his son, Astyanax, back to his mother, but instead of looking at the child, she was gazing piteously at Hector.
He pleads with Hector to retreat within the walls, for he foresees all that is to come if his best son falls: little Astyanax hurled from the walls, Troy sacked.
Argive ships and that little Astyanax, whom his father and I had called Scamandrius, was to be their yearly heiffer chosen for sacrifice.
Aphrodite tells us that it was not she who slayed our beloved Scamandrius, our Astyanax, our young lord of the city.
His towering form strode over Ilium and walked across the miles between here and the shore like Astyanax playing in his sandbox, striding over his toy soldiers.