Editing Crinisus (section)

{{for|the river in Sicily|Crinisus (river)}}
{{redirect-distinguish-text|Crimisus|the groundhopper of subfamily [[Metrodorinae]]}}
[[File:Segesta 475-455 Didrachm.jpg|thumb|[[Segesta]]n Silver [[Didrachm]], 475–455 BCE, possibly depicting Crinisus in the form of a dog on one side, and Segesta on the other<ref name="Bottari 2023"/>]]
'''Crinisus''' (in [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'' and subsequent Roman texts) or '''Crimisus''' was the god of the [[Sicily|Sicilian]] river [[Crinisus (river)|Crinisus]] in [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Roman mythology]]. According to most versions of the myth, Crinisus fathered [[Acestes]] with a [[Troy|Trojan]] woman while in the form of a dog. Acestes then went on to found [[Segesta]], which he named after his mother.<ref name="DGRG Segesta">{{Cite DGRG|title=Segesta}}</ref><ref name="DGRG Crimisus">{{Cite DGRG|title=Crimisus}}</ref> Segestan coins from 475–390 BCE often depict a dog on one side, and a woman's head on the other, which have traditionally been associated with Crinisus and the [[eponym]]ous Segesta.<ref name="Bottari 2023"/>