 Here it was found by his uncle Sisyphus, who had it removed to Corinth, and by command of the Nereids instituted the Isthmian Games and sacrifices in his honor.Palaemon appears for the first time in Euripides' "Iphigeneia in Tauris", where he is already the "guardian of ships".<ref>Euripides, "Iphigeneia in Tauris", 270.</ref> The paramount identification in the Latin poets of the Augustan age is with Portunus, the Roman god of safe harbours, memorably in Virgil's "Georgics".<ref>Virgil, "Georgics" 1.436-7