Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index On the coast of Lucania, Aeneas' helmsman in Roman mythology, Palinurus, fell asleep and dropped into the water. He swam to shore but was killed by the Lucanians. Mt. Palinuro is named after him. Virgil III, 202; V, 858; VI, 381. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.