so called from
Oceanus, are ranked in the third class of water deities.

PALAEMON, _or_ MELICERTES, was son of Athamas, king of Thebes and Ino.
The latter fearing the rage of her husband, who in his madness had
killed his son Learchus, took Melicertes in her arms, and leaped with
him from the rock Molyris into the sea. Neptune received them with open
arms, and gave them a place among the marine gods, only changing their
names, Ino being called Leucothea, or Leucothoe, and Melicertes,
Palaemon. Ino, under the name Leucothea, is supposed, by some, to be the
same with Aurora: the Romans gave her the name of Matuta, she being
reputed the goddess that ushers in the morning; and Palaemon, they called
Portumnus, or Portunnus, and painted him with a key in his hand, to
denote that he was the guardian of harbors. Adorations were paid to him
chiefly at Tenedos, and the sacrifice offered to him was an infant.

Pausanias says that the body of Melicertes was thrown on the Isthmus of
Corinth where Sisyphus, his uncle, who reigned in that city, instituted
the Isthmian games in his honor. For this fable we are indebted to the
fertile invention of the Greeks, Melicertes being no other than the
Melcarthus or the Hercules of Tyre, who, from having been drowned in the
sea, was called a god of it, and from his many voyages, the guardian of
harbors.

GLAUCUS, a sea-deity. His story, which is very fanciful, shows the
extravagance of poetical fiction amongst the ancients. Before his
deification, Glaucus is said to have been a fisherman of Anthedon, who
having one day remarked that the fishes which he laid on a particular
herb revived and threw themselves into the sea, resolved himself to
taste it, and immediately followed their example: the consequence was,
that he became a Triton, and ever after was reputed a marine deity,
attending with the rest on the car of Neptune.

The descent of this deity is exceeding dubious. He is said to have
carried off Ariadne from the island Dia, for which Bacchus bound him
fast with vine-twigs. The ship Argo is said to have been constructed by
him, and he is not only mentioned as commanding her, when Jason fought
with the Tyrrhenians, but as being the only one of her crew that came
off without a wound. He dwelt some time at Delos, and, besides
prophesying with the Nereids, is affirmed to have instructed Apollo in
the art.

SCYLLA was the daughter of Phorcus, or Phorcys, by Ceto. Glaucus, being
passionately