(). The Trojan Phoenodamas (others call him
Hippotes, Ippoteus or Ipsostratus) had three daughters. When he was to be compelled by
Laomedon to expose one of them to the marine monster which was ravaging the country, he called
the people together and induced them to compel Laomedon, whose guilt had brought the monster
into the country, to expose his own daughter Hesione. Laomedon then took vengeance by causing
some sailors to convey the three daughters of Phoenodamas to a desert part of the coast of
Sicily (some say Libya). One of these maidens was Segesta or Egesta, with whom the river god
Crimissus, in the shape of a bear or a dog, begot Aegestus, Egestus or Acestes, by whom Egesta
in Sicily was built. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 471, 953 ;