Words / 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge / P / Palinurus
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Palinurus, the pilot of one of the ships of Æneas, who, sleeping at his post, fell into the sea, and was drowned.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Palinurus in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable