Brewer's: Palaemon

originally called Melicertes. Son of Ino; called Palaemon after he was made a sea-god. The Roman Portunus, the protecting god of harbours, is the same. (See Palemon.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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