Nauplius

Nauplĭus, ii, m., = Ναύπλιος,

I a son of Neptune and Amymone, king of Euboea, and father of Palamedes. To avenge his son, whom the Greeks had put to death before Troy, he made false signal-fires on the shores of Euboea as the Greeks were returning homeward, and led them to shipwreck upon the rocks : Nauplius ultores sub noctem porrigit ignes, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 115; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 11, 260; Hyg. Fab. 116: Nauplii mala, Suet. Ner. 39.—Hence,

II Nauplĭădes , ae, m., = Ναυπλιάδης, the son of Nauplius , i. e. Palamedes , Ov. M. 13, 39; 310; id. Ib. 621.