As they sailed toward Italy, the god of sleep overpowered Palinurus during the night and hurled him into the sea (Aeneid V. 814-871). Aeneas later met him in the Underworld, where he told him how he had died (Aeneid VI.

How does Palinurus Aeneas's helmsman die?

Palinurus responds that he survived the plunge into the sea and washed ashore after four days near Velia, and was killed there and left unburied.

How did Misenus die?

Misenus was a character in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid. ... He was a brother-in-arms of Hector and, after Hector's death, Aeneas' trumpeter. In Book VI, it is revealed that he had challenged the gods to a musical contest on the conch shell, and for his impudence was drowned by Triton.