a piece of money put into the mouth of a person deceased among the Romans, to enable him to pay Charon the ferryman for his passage. It was to be of the current coin of the reigning empe- NAUPLIA had been driven from Peloponnesus by the Macedonians. It became the property of the Macedonians after the battle of Aegospotamos, and it was restored to the Locri. Philip of Macedonia afterwards took it, and gave it to the Epirots; from which circumstance it has generally been called one of the chief cities of their country. E. Long. 22. 20. N. Lat. 38. 0.

There was on the shore a temple of Neptune, and near it a cave filled with offerings, and dedicated to Venus, where widows resorted to request new husbands of the goddess. Pausan. lib. 10. p. 898.