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.
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