in fabulous history, a son of Neptune and Amymone, was king of Eubœa, and the father of the fa- mous Palamedes, who, by the artifice and resentment of Ulysses, was so unjustly sacrificed by the Greeks at the Trojan war. The death of Palamedes highly enraged Nau- plus; and, to revenge the injustice of the Grecian princes, he endeavoured to debauch their wives, and ruin their characters. When the Greeks returned from the Trojan war, Nauplius was pleased to see them distressed in a storm on the coasts of Eubœa; and, to render their disaster still more universal, he lighted fires on such places as were surrounded with the most dangerous rocks, that the fleet might be shipwrecked upon the coast. This had the de- sired effect; but Nauplius was so disappointed when he ob- served that Ulysses and Diomedes had escaped from the general distress, that he threw himself into the sea. Ac- cording to some mythologists, there were two persons of this name; one a native of Argos, the son of Neptune and Amymone, who accompanied Jason to Colchis; and the other king of Eubœa, who lived about the time of the Trojan war, and, according to some, was the son of Cly-