Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greco-Roman mythology Sergestus was a Trojan friend of Aeneas. He was the ancestor of gens Sergia a famous Patrician family of which Catilina was a member.In Virgil’s Aeneid during a funerary ship race Aeneas gives to Sergestus a Cretan slave girl named Pholoe in gratitude for saving both ship and crew.And Serguestus from the house of the name SergiaSergestus also appears as a minor character in Christopher Marlowe’s play Dido Queen of Carthage.