Battos
Battos (Greek Βάττος "stutterer", Latin Battus ) means:
Figures of Greek mythology,
- Battos (shepherd) , a shepherd from Messenia
- Battus (King of Malta) , takes in Anna, the sister of Queen Dido (Ovid Fasti 3,571)
Ruler of Cyrene from the Battiad dynasty ,
- Battos I , founder of Cyrene,
- Battos II , his grandson,
- Battos III. whose grandchildren,
- Battos IV. , His grandson,
- Battos, Crown Prince of the last ruler Arkesilaos IV.
Surname:
- Abraham Battus (1606–1674), Protestant theologian, general superintendent of Swedish Pomerania
- Bartholomäus Battus (1571–1637), Protestant theologian.
- Levinus Battus (1545–1591), German medic.
Also:
- Battus, character in Christoph Ransmayr's novel " The Last World " from 1988.
- Battus (genus) , genus of butterflies from the knight butterfly family .
