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Krimisos ( Greek  Κριμισός ; Latin Crinisus ) was the god of a river in Sicily in antiquity , probably today's Belice . Like all river gods, he is considered the son of Tethys and their brother Okeanos .

According to Virgil and Hyginus Mythographus, Krimisos fathered Acestes with a Trojan nymph named Egesta or Segesta , who later founded the Sicilian city of Segesta .

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Individual evidence

  1. Virgil, Aeneid 5:38.
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 273.