Nestor,

Nestor, according to ancient Greek legend, the son of Neleus and Chloris, born in the Messenian Pylos, escaped destruction when Hercules slew all his brothers. He married Eurydice, by whom he became the father of a numerous family. In his youth he was distinguished for valour in wars with the Arcadians, Eleians, and the Centaurs, and in his advanced age for wisdom. Although he was an old man when the expedition against Troy was undertaken, he joined it with his Pylians in sixty ships. Homer makes him the great counsellor of the Greek chiefs, and extols his eloquence as superior even to that of Ulysses. Nestor returned in safety to his own dominions after the fall of Troy, and continued for long to rule over the people of Pylos.—For the birds called Nestor, see KEA.