Patareus
Παταρεύς
(Παταρεύς), a surname of Apollo, derived from the Lycian town of Patara, where he had an oracle, and where, according to Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 4.143), the god used to spend the six winter months in every year. (Hor. C(arin. 3.4. 64; Lycoph. 920; Hdt. 1.162; Strab. xiv. p.665, &c.; Paus. 9.41.1.)
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.