Nauplius, A King of Eubœa, and father to Palamedes, who vnderstãding that by Vlysses crafty meanes, his sonne was falsly condemned of treason, and stoned to death of the whole armie, desirous to be reuenged on that crueltie, he wente nuer all Greece alluring the wyues of all those Princes that were in watfare at Troy, to commit adultrie with other yong Gentlemen. Thinking by that meanes to set them togither by the eares, and make them to worke confusion to themselnes. Afterward when Troy was ouercome, and the Græcians Nauie on the sea returning home, in a greate tempest and darke night, on the toppe of the mount Caphareus he made shew of a sire to them, to allure them to come that way, by whiche meanes he brought a greate parte of the Nauie vpon daungeroas cockes, and pitifullye drowned them. But when he vnderstoode that Vlysses and Diomedes had scaped the daunger, fur whose cause he chieflye vsed that deuise, for sorrow he cast himself headlong into the sea.