Naupliades

1.

Nauplĭus, ii, m., = Nauplios, a son of Neptune and Amymone, king of Eubœa, and father of Palamedes. To avenge his son, whom the Greeks had put to death before Troy, he made false signal-fires on the shores of Eubœa as the Greeks were returning homeward, and led them to shipwreck upon the rocks:

Nauplius ultores sub noctem porrigit ignes,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 115; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 11, 260; Hyg. Fab. 116:

Nauplii mala,

Suet. Ner. 39.—Hence,

II.

Nauplĭădes, ae, m., = Naupliadês, the son of Nauplius, i. e. Palamedes, Ov. M. 13, 39; 310; id. Ib. 621.

2.

nauplĭus, ii, m., = nauplios, a kind of shell-fish, which sails in its shell as in a ship, Plin. 9, 30, 49, § 94; v. naviger.