Misēnus

, a son of Æolus, who was piper to Hector. After Hector’s death he followed Æneas to Italy, and was drowned on the coast of Camp an i a, because he had challenged one of the Tritons. Æneas afterwards found his body on the sea-shore, and buried it on a promontory which bears his name, now Miseno . There was also a town of the same name on the promontory, at the west of the bay of Naples, and it had also a capacious harbour, where August us and some of the Roman emperors generally kept stationed one of their fleets. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 239 ; bk. 6 , lis. 164 & 234.— Strabo , bk. 5 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 4 .— Livy , bk. 24 , ch. 13 .— Tacitus , Histories , bk. 2 , ch. 9 ; Annals , bk. 15 , ch. 51 .