The maxims which palinurus addresses to Phaedromus in the Curculio would probably not have shocked an ancient moralist:- Nemo hinc prohibet nec vetat Quin quod palamst venale, si argentumst, emas.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
I now told our palinurus it was necessary to look out for the port of Tripoli Vecchia, otherwise we should be obliged to go back or keep the open sea all night, for we could not reach Tripoli to-day.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
It was then uncertain whether Aden or Sokotra would be chosen as a coaling station for India, and Lieutenant Wellsted was sent in the palinurus to take a survey of it; but doubtless the harbourless condition of the island, and the superior position of Aden in that respect, caused the decision in favour of Aden.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent