originally called Melicertēs. Son of Ino; called Palæmon after he was made a sea-god. The Roman Portuʹnus, the protecting god of harbours, is the same. (See Palemon.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.