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.