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Mythology:
When Laomedon was king of Troy Apollo and Poseidon, assuming
the likeness of mortal men, undertook to fortify Troy for
wages.
But when the work was done, Laomedon would not pay their
wages.
So Poseidon sent a sea-monster, which snatched away the
people of the plain.
One clever father sent his daughter, Segesta
[Egesta], to Sicily to avoid this doom.
There, she was seduced by the river-god Krimisos, and gave
birth to Acestes, the founder of Segesta.
Vergil, Aeneid
V
After leaving Dido, Aeneas and his men encounter a storm and
put in at Drepanum, southwest of Mt Eryx on the coast of
Sicily.
They are welcomed there by Acestes, "not unmindful of his
ancient race" (ueterum non immemor ille
parentum).
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Thucydides,
VI.2.3
"On the fall of Ilium, some of the Trojans escaped from the
Achaeans, came in ships to Sicily, and settled next to the
Sicanians under the general name of Elymi; their towns being
called Eryx and Egesta."
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