Botrys

• a town in Phoenicia, now the village of Batron, Plin. 5, 20, 17, § 78; Mel. 1, 12, 3.

(Βότρυς), a native of Messana in Sicily, was the inventor of the lascivious poems called Παίγνια. (Athen. 7.322a.; Plb. 12.13; Suidas, s. v. Δημοχάρης.)

(Βότρυς), a Greek physician, who must have lived in or before the first century after Christ. His writings are not now extant, but they were used by Pliny for his Natural History. (Ind. to H. N. xiii. xiv.) One of his prescriptions is preserved by Galen. (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos. iii l. vol. xii. p. 640.) [W.A.G]

BOTRYS (Βότρυς; Botrys, Botrus, Peut. Tab.: Βοστρύς, Theophan. Chronogr. p. 193: Eth. Βοτρυηνός, Steph. B.; Hierocles; Plin. Nat. 5.20; Pomp. Mela 1.12.3: Bátrún), a town of Phoenicia, upon the coast, 12 M. P. north of Byblus (Tab. Peut.), and a fortress of the robber tribes of Mt. Libanus (Strab. 16. p. 755), which was, according to the historian Menander, as quoted by Josephus (J. AJ), founded by Ithobal, king of Tyre. It was taken with other cities by Antiochus the Great in his Phoenician campaign. (Plb. 5.68.) Bátrún is a small town, with a port and 300 or 400 houses, chiefly belonging to Maronites, with a few which are occupied by Greeks and Turks. (Chesney, Exped. Euphrat. vol. 1. p. 454.)