Acestes
mythological figure · 1 work · 3 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Dardanian Acestes · King Acestes · Trojan Acestes · good Acestes · great Acestes
in the texts
Aeneid
Trojan-descended king in Sicily, host and provisioner of Aeneas's fleet.
Then back to shore he sped, and to his friends distributed the spoil, with that rare wine which good Acestes while in Sicily had stored in jars, and prince-like sent away with his Ioved guest;
O'er the sea in the Sicilian land, are cities proud, with martial power, and great Acestes there is of our Trojan kin.
Iulus bids us hope,—then, at the least, to yon Sicilian seas, to friendly lands whence hither drifting with the winds we came, let us retrace the journey and rejoin good King Acestes.