Buphagus
2. A surname of Heracles, Lepreus, and others, who were believed to have eaten a whole bull at once. (Apollod. 2.7.7, 5.11; Aelian, Ael. VH 1.24; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1523.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.