A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Buthrōtum, now Butrinto, a seaport town of Epirus, opposite Corcyra, visited by Æneas, in his way from Troy to Italy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 293.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 1.

Buthrōtus, a river in Italy, near Locri.

Buthyreus, a noble statuary, disciple to Myron. Pliny, bk. 34, ch. 8.

Butoa, an island in the Mediterranean, near Crete. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.

Butorĭdes, an historian who wrote concerning the pyramids. Pliny, bk. 36, ch. 12.

Butos, a town of Egypt, where there was a temple of Apollo and Diana, and an oracle of Latona. Herodotus, bk. 2, chs. 59 & 63.

Butuntum, an inland town of Apulia. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 11.

Butus, a son of Pandion.

Buzȳges, an Athenian who first ploughed with harnessed oxen. Demophoon gave him the Palladium, with which Diomedes had entrusted him to be carried to Athens. Polyænus, bk. 1, ch. 5.

Byblesia and Bybassia, a country of Caria. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 174.