Archytas of Tarentum (Archy`tas of Tarentum) , famous as a statesman, a soldier, a geometrician, a philosopher, and a man; a Pythagorean in philosophy, and influential in that capacity over the minds of Plato, his contemporary, and Aristotle; was drowned in the Adriatic Sea, 4th century B.C.; his body lay unburied on the shore till a sailor humanely cast a handful of sand on it, otherwise he would have had to wander on this side the Styx for a hundred years, such the virtue of a little dust, munera pulveris, as Horace calls it.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ar`chon * Arcis`-sur-Aube