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	Battus can refer to: In Greek mythology, Battus is a shepherd from Pylos Pylos This article is about the Greek geographical feature and town. For the mythological figure see Pylus . For board game see Pylos .Pylos, or P?los , is a large bay and a town on the west coast of the Peloponnese, in the district of Messenia in southern Greece.... , Battus witnessed Hermes Hermes Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. An Twelve Olympians, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunni... stealing Apollo's cattle. Though he promised his silence, he told many others. Hermes turned him to stone. In early Greek history, Battus Battus I of Cyrene Battus I of Cyrene or Battus I , lived in the 7th century BC. He came from the island of Thera ,and later founded the colony of Cyrenaica and its capital, Cyrene.... was the founder of Cyrene Cyrene Cyrene may refer to:* Cyrene , a Greek mythological figure* Cyrene, Libya, an ancient Greek colony in North Africa* The USS Cyrene , a motor torpedo boat tender... , and several kings of Cyrene List of Kings of Cyrene Cyrene, Libya or Cyrenaica was a Greece colony on the North African coast, in what is now northeastern Libya, founded by settlers from Thera in the 7th century BC.... , of the same name, were descended from him. Battus Battus (butterfly) *Battus* is a genus of butterflies that are usually found around pipevine plants. The caterpillars feed off the poisonous pipevines, making the insects poisonous themselves; they taste very bad to ward off predators .... is a genus of swallowtail butterflies, family Papilionidae, subfamily Papilioninae Papilioninae Papilioninae is a subfamily of the family Papilionidae. Papilioninae occurs world wide with most of the species being found in the tropics. There are roughly 480 species, of which 27 occur in North America.... . Battus is also a pseudonym Pseudonym A pseudonym, , is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name. In some cases, pseudonyms are adopted because it is part of a cultural or organizational tradition, as in the case of Religious names used by members of some religious orders and "cadre names" used by Communist party leaders such as Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.... of Dutch Netherlands The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.... author Hugo Brandt Corstius Hugo Brandt Corstius Hugo Brandt Corstius is a Netherlands author known for his achievements in both literature and science.In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics.... Battus was a certain order of penitents at Avignon Avignon Avignon is a Communes of France in the Vaucluse Departments of France in southeastern France with an estimated mid-2004 population of 89,300 in the city itself and a population of 290,466 in the aire urbaine at the 1999 census.... , and in Provence Provence Provence is a region of southeastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative regions of France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur.... , whose piety Piety In spiritual terminology, piety is a virtue. While different people may understand its meaning differently, it is generally used to refer either to religion or to spirituality, or often, a combination of both.... carried them to exercise severe discipline upon themselves, both in public and private.