Ajax2ANCIENT_Hyginus

Hyginus Fabulae, 116

     After Troy was taken and the booty divided and as the Danaans were returning home, the gods were angered because the Danaans had despoiled their sanctuaries and because Locrian Ajax had wrested Cassandra away from the Palladium. They therefore shipwrecked them by a storm and by roused gales upon the cliffs of Caphereus. In that storm Locrian Ajax was blasted with a thunderbolt by Minerva. The surge pounded him onto the rocks, whence the reef is now named after Ajax. When the survivors in the night had invoked the gods' trust Nauplius heard them and perceived that the time had come to avenge the offenses against his son Palamedes. Thus, as if he brought them aid, he lifted high a burning torch right where the cliff was especially sharp and the place was most dangerous; and they believed that this had been done out of brotherly kindness and directed their ships there. Because of this, most of their ships were smashed and most of the soldiers and their leaders were killed in the storm, their limbs and guts were pounded onto the cliffs. If any of them were able to swim to land, though, they were murdered by Nauplius. The wind, however, sent Ulysses to Marone and Menelaus to Egypt, while Agamemnon reached his homeland with Cassandra.
     — translation RTMacfarlane


     116 Nauplius
Ilio capto et diuisa praeda Danai cum domum redirent, ira deorum quod fana spoliauerant et quod Cassandram Aiax Locrus a signo Palladio abripuerat, tempestate et flatibus aduersis ad saxa Capharea naufragium fecerunt. in qua tempestate Aiax Locrus fulmine est a Minerua ictus, quem fluctus ad saxa illiserunt, unde Aiacis petrae sunt dictae; ceteri noctu cum fidem deorum implorarent, Nauplius audiuit sensitque tempus uenisse ad persequendas filii sui Palamedis iniurias. itaque tamquam auxilium eis afferret, facem ardentem eo loco extulit quo saxa acuta et locus periculosissimus erat; illi credentes humanitatis causa id factum nauis eo duxerunt, quo facto plurimae earum confractae sunt militesque plurimi cum ducibus tempestate occisi sunt membraque eorum cum uisceribus ad saxa illisa sunt; si qui autem potuerunt ad terram natare, a Nauplio interficiebantur. at Vlissem uentus detulit ad Maronem, Menelaum in Aegyptum, Agamemnon cum Cassandra in patriam peruenit.