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Battus (means "tongue-tied"
[1] ) was a figure in
Greek mythology who witnessed
Hermes stealing
Apollo 's cattle in
Maenalus in
Arcadia .
Hermes turns Butte to stone ." Engraving by Antoine - Jean Duclos of 1767 for Ovid 's Metamorphoses
Hermes gave him a
heifer on condition Battus kept the theft secret. On returning in disguise, Hermes offered to reward Battus if he would tell him the location of the cattle; Battus did so, and for his greed was punished by being
turned into stone .
[2]
[3]
Notes
^ Graves, Robert (1960).
The Greek Myths . Harmondsworth, London, England: Penguin Books. pp. s.v. Aristaeus.
ISBN
978-0143106715 .
^ Michael Grant, John Hazel (2004). Who's Who in Classical Mythology (revised ed.). Routledge. p. 97.
ISBN
9781134509430 .
^ Pierre Grimal (1991). The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology . Penguin Books. p. 72.
References
Graves, Robert , The Greek Myths , Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960.
ISBN
978-0143106715
Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. 2017.
ISBN
978-0-241-98338-6 ,
024198338X
Grimal, Pierre , The Dictionary of Classical Mythology , Wiley-Blackwell, 1996.
ISBN
978-0-631-20102-1
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