[38] ‘Crimiso’ is the reading of only one MS., the great majority giving ‘Criniso.’ But the Greek name of the river was Κρίμισος or Κρίμισσος. The story as told by Serv. on 1. 550 is that Poseidon in punishment of Laomedon's fraud sent a sea-monster to ravage the Troad, that Trojan maidens were ordered to be given to it, that fathers in consequence sent their daughters away, that one Hippotas put his daughter Segesta or Egesta on board a ship which carried her to Sicily, and that there a union took place between Segesta and the river-god Crimisus, the fruit of which was Egestus or Acestes. It should be mentioned that Serv. there says Virg. calls Crimisus Crinisus by poetic licence. The common construction is ‘concipere de’ or ‘ex aliquo.’ Pliny 8. 16 has “conceptus leone.”
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