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astyanax

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What does astyanax mean?

proper noun

  1. The nickname of Scamandrius, child son of Hector and Andromache.

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It was a Greek subject, Hector parting from Andromache when he went to engage the Greeks, giving his young son Astyanax into her arms, and she fixing her eyes upon him.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674