Glaucus, The sonne of Hippolothus, which came to Troye to ayde king Pryamus. He was so foolishe, that he made chãge with Diomedes, and for his brasen harnesse, gaue to hym his harnesse of gold: wherof riseth this prouerbe, Glauci & Diomedis permutatio: whereby wee note passing greate oddes in exchaunge. It is also the name of a Fisher, who taking Fishe and casting them downe on the banke, perceiued that as soone as they had tasted of a certaine hearbe that there did growe, they leapte from him againe into the sea: whereat he greatly marueyling, tasted himselfe of the sayde hearbe, and forthwith leapt also into the sea, where, as Poets faine, he became one of the sea gods.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Glaucus, i, m., = *glau=kos, a Greek proper name.I.A son of Sisyphus, devoured by his own horses, Verg. G. 3, 267.— II.The commander of the Lycians in the Trojan war, a friend of Diomede, Hor. S. 1, 7, 17.—III.A fisherman of Anthedon, in Eubœa, who was changed into a sea-god, Ov. M. 13, 906 sq.; 14, 9; 38; 68; 7, 233: Glauci chorus,