proper noun
Battus
Meaning
- A name given to Aristotle of Thera
Battus, i, m., = Βάττος.
I. A name given to Aristotle of Thera, the founder of Cyrene, Sil. 8, 57; 17, 591; Just. 13, 7, 1.— Hence,
b. Battĭădes, ae, m., an inhabitant of Cyrene, Sil. 2, 61; 3, 252; 17, 592; and, κατʼ ἐξοχήν, the poet Callimachus, a native of Cyrene, Cat. 65, 16; Ov. Tr. 2, 367; id. Ib. 55; id. Am. 1, 15, 13; Stat. S. 5, 3, 157.—
II. A herdsman of Neleus, in Triphylia, near Elis, in the Peloponnesus, who, on account of his betraying a theft of Mercury, was transformed by him into the stone Index, Ov. M. 2, 688 sq.