Battis

, a girl, celebrated by Philetus the elegiac poet. Ovid , Tristia , bk. 1 , poem 5. Battus I. , a Lacedæmonian who built the town of Cyrene, B.C. 630, with a colony from the island of Thera. He was son of Polymnestus and Phronime, and reigned in the town he had founded, and after death received divine honours. The difficulty with which he spoke first procured him the name of Battus. Hero dot us , bk. 4 , ch. 155 , . — Pausanias , bk. 10 , ch. 15 .――The second of that name was grandson to Battus  I. by Arcesilaus. He succeeded his father on the throne of Cyrene, and was surnamed Felix , and died 554 B.C. Hero dot us , bk. 4 , ch. 159 , . ――A shepherd of Pylos, who promised Mercury that he would not discover his having stolen the flocks of Admetus, which Apollo tended. He violated his promise, and was turned into a pumice stone. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 2 , li. 702 .――A general of Corinth against Athens. Thucydides , bk. 4 , ch. 43 .――A buffoon of Caesar’s. Plutarch , Convivium Septem Sapientium , ch. 6 .