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He was the brother of Hecuba from Phrygia, who was slain by Ajax (Il. 16.716).
Asius. A son of Dymas and brother of Hecabe. Apollo assumed the appearance of this Asius, when he wanted to stimulate Hector to fight against Patroclus. (Hom. Il. xvi. 715, &c.; Eustath.) According to Dictys Cretensis (iv. 12), Asius was slain by Ajax. There are two more mythical personages of this name, which is also used as a surname of Zeus, from the town of Asos or Oasos in Crete. (Virg. Aen. x. 123; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 355; Steph. Byz. s. v. Asos).
Then the rest of the Trojans and their far-famed allies obeyed the counsel of
blameless Polydamas, but Asius, son of Hyrtacus, leader of men, was not minded
to leave there his horses and his squire the charioteer, but chariot and all he
drew nigh to the swift ships, fool that he was! for he was not to escape the evil
fates, and return, glorying in horses and chariot, back from the ships to windy
Ilios. (Hom. Il.12.108-115)
Commentary:
1. For Asius, son of Hyrtacus, see ancient city Arisbe.(GTP's
editor remark)
2. Asios now appears, unlike the other Trojans, with a chariot. The description
of his attack on the wall in 12.110-114 accounts for this, and indeed appears
to have been interpolated there for the purpose. If the original mache epi tais
nausin knew nothing of a wall, but only described a gradual driving of the Greeks
along the plain up to their ships, then the casual mention of a chariot among
the footmen would be nothing remarkable. Fick suggests that the name is Assios,
from the town of Assos. For the variant epamuntor cf. hupheniochos 6.19, episkopos
10.38, with note.(Commentary by Walter Leaf)
For this Pedasos in the Troad cf. 21.87, 20.92. Strabo calls it a city of the Leleges opposite Lesbos, and another legend identifies it with Adramyttium. More recently it has been identified with Assos. It is not recorded in the Catalogue. A town of the same name in Messene is mentioned in 9.152, and there was a Pedasa near Halikarnassos. (Commentary by Walter Leaf)
Homer speaks of a Pedasus, a city of the Leleges, as subject to lord Altes:
Of Altes, who is lord over the war-loving Leleges,
who hold steep Pedasus on the Satnioeis.
And the site of the place, now deserted, is still to be seen. Some write, though
wrongly, "at the foot of Satnioeis", as though the city lay at the foot of a mountain
called Satnioeis; but there is no mountain here called Satinoeis, but only a river
of that name, on which the city is situated; but the city is now deserted. The
poet names the river, for, according to him,
he wounded Satnius with a thrust of his spear,
even the son of Oenops, whom a peerless Naiad nymph bore unto Oenops, as he tended
his herds by the banks of the Satnioeis;
and again:
And he dwelt by the banks of the fair-flowing Satnioeis
in steep Pedasus.
And in later times it was called Satnioeis, though some called it Saphnioeis.
It is only a large winter torrent, but the naming of it by the poet has made it
worthy of mention. These places are continuous with Dardania and Scepsia, and
are, as it were, a second Dardania, but it is lower-lying. (Strab. 13.1.50)
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Aug 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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