Battos (Pylos)

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In the Greek Mythology, Battos is a Pasteur old man of Pylos to the service of Nélée.

Witness of the flight by Hermes, then just born, of the ox herd belonging to Apollo, it promises to the young god to reveal this larceny with nobody in exchange of an heifer. But Hermes, very right party, returns to test it by taking a different appearance and by promising a bull to him if it states to him that it knows. Battos betrays its promise and is changed into stone by the god.

Sources

  • (XXIII);

  • (II, 676-707).

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