NESTOR, in fabulous history, a son of Neleus and Chloris, nephew to Pelias and grandson to Neptune. He had eleven brothers, who were all killed with his father by Hercules. His tender age detained him at home, and was the cause of his preservation. The conqueror spared his life and placed him upon the throne of Pylos. He married Eurydice the daughter of Clymenus; or, according to others, Anaxibia the daughter of Atreus. He soon distinguished himself in the field of battle; and was present at the nuptials of Perithous, when a bloody engagement took place between the Lapithæ and Centaurs. As king of Pylos and Messenia he led his subjects to the Trojan war, where he distinguished himself among the rest of the Grecian chiefs, by eloquence, address, wisdom, justice, and uncommon prudence. Homer displays his character as the most perfect of all his heroes; and Agamemnon exclaims, that if he had 20 generals like Nestor, he should soon see the walls of Troy reduced to ashes. After the Trojan war Nestor retired to Greece, where he enjoyed in the bosom of his family the peace and tranquillity which were due to his wisdom and to his age. The manner and the time of his death are unknown: the ancients are all agreed that he lived three generations of men; which length of time is supposed to be 300 years, though more probably only 90 years, allowing 30 years for each generation. From that circumstance, therefore, it was usual among the Greeks and the Latins, when they wished a long and happy life to their friends, to wish them to see the years of Nestor. He had many children; two daughters, Pisidice and Polycaste; and seven sons, Perseus, Straticus, Areus, Echephron, Pisistratus, Antilochus, and Thrasymedes. Nestor was one of the Argonauts, according to Valerius Flaccus, v. 380, &c.—A poet of Lycæonia in the age of the emperor Severus. He was father to Pisander, who under the emperor Alexander wrote some fabulous stories—One of the body guards of Alexander.