The name seems to be a compound of Ca-Astor, the temple or place of Astor; who was rendered at different times Asterius, asterion, and Astarte.
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31. He was also named Asterus, asterion, and Asterius.
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Jacob Bryant
Pausanias represents asterion, whose tomb is said to have been discovered in Lydia, as a son of Anac, and of an enormous size.
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