# Neptune — The Lusiads character guide

> Neptune in The Lusiads by Luís de Camões.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Already Neptune, King Neptune

**First appearance:** 0005-canto-i

## Who they are

God of the sea, whose realm the Portuguese navigate and who sometimes opposes them.

## In the story

### [Canto VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lusiads_se/chapters/canto-vi)

Presides over the sea-gods in his palace; Bacchus appeals to him.

### [Manuscript No. I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lusiads_se/chapters/manuscript-no-i)

Referenced as the Sea-god whose tenement is the ocean's middle site, and whose wrath is invoked.

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