Glaucus was a fisher of Bœotia, and remarking, on one occasion, that the fish which he threw on the grass, seemed to receive fresh vigour from touching the ground, he attributed it to the grass, and tasting it, was seized with a sudden desire to live in the sea.
Upon this, he leapt into the water, and was made a sea deity by Oceanus, at the request of the marine gods.
Æolus, god of the winds, reigned in the Vulcanean islands, and was under the power of Neptune, who allowed him to give liberty to the winds, or to recall them into their caverns at his pleasure.
"Oh many a voice is thine thou wind!
Full many a voice is thine,
From every scene thy wing o'ersweeps
Thou bear'st a sound and sign;
A minstrel wild and strong thou art,
With a mastery all thine own,