Acestes

Aigestos (Greek Αἴγεστος ) is a person in the classical Greco - Roman mythology. He is the son of the Trojan parents who had fled to Sicily. Aigestos returned to Troy and fought together with Elymos in the Trojan War. After his return to Sicily where he founded the city of Segesta.

According to Servius, however, he is a son of the Sicilian river-god Crimisus and a Trojan nymph named Segesta or Segesta.

Virgil tells how Aigestos, the Acestes here means the Aeneas hospitably at his escape from Troy picks up and helps him to bury his father Anchises. In the subsequent funeral games he was the winner of archery.