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Palinurus

by Micha F. Lindemans
The helmsman of Aeneas, who, while asleep, fell into the sea at the coast of Lucania. He swam to the coast but was killed by the Lucanians. A mountain near that place is named after him (the current Palinuro).

Virgil III, 202; V, 858; VI, 381.

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