Glaucens

Glaucens, the name of several figures in Greek mythology. (1) Son of Hippolochus and grandson of Bellerophontes, commander of the Lycians in the Trojan war, slain by Ajax. He was connected with Diomedes by ties of hospitality, and when they met in battle they forbore to fight with one another, exchanging arms instead.—(2) Son of Minos of Crete and Pasiphae, smothered when a boy by falling into a cask of honey. The soothsayer, Polyidus of Argos, unable to bring him back to life, was buried with him, but saved by a serpent which revealed a herb effective for the purpose.—(3) A fisherman of Anthedon in Bœotia, who became a sea-god by eating part of a herb which Cronos had sown. Every year he visited all the coasts of Greece, attended by a train of marine monsters, and giving forth oracles to which it behoved fishermen and mariners especially to attend.