Nautes

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Nautes ( ancient Greek Ναύτης ) was an old man and priest of Athena in Troy in Greek mythology .

He was one of the companions of Aeneas and was distinguished by Athena with great wisdom. Aeneas, who is thinking about it and is unsure whether he should stay in Sicily or move on to Italy , is there to advise. Instead of the just sacrificing Aeneas, he takes the stolen Palladion from Diomedes, which Diomedes wants to return on the basis of an oracle. This was used in Roman antiquity to explain why it was not the gens Iulia but the gens Nautia , whose progenitor Nautes was considered to be, who administered the sacra Minervae in Rome . The patrician gens Nautia died in the 3rd century BC. Chr. From.

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  1. ^ Virgil , Aeneid 5, 704-706.
  2. ^ Dionysios of Halicarnassus , antiquitates Romanae 6, 69.
  3. Varro in Servius , commentarius in Vergilii Aeneida 5, 704. 2, 166. 3, 407; Festus , de verborum significatione 166; Mythographi Vaticani 1, 142; Plutarch , Camillus 20; Marcus Annaeus Lucanus 9.994.