Butes
- Son of Amycus, king of the Bebrycians, slain by Dares at the tomb of Hector, Verg. A. 5, 372.—
- II An Argonaut, son of Teleon and Zeuxippe, Hyg. Fab. 14.—
- III Son of the Athenian Pallas, sent with Cephalus to Aeacus, Ov. M. 7, 500.—
- IV An armor-bearer of Anchises, Verg. A. 9, 647 sqq.—
- V A Trojan, Verg. A. 11, 690 sqq.
(Βούτης). (1) A Thracian, the son of Boreas. His brother Lycurgus, whose life he had attempted, banished him, and he settled on the island of Strongylé or Naxos. Finding here no wives for himself and his companions, he carried off some women from Thessaly, while they were celebrating a sacrifice to Dionysus. One of these, Coronis, whom he had forced to be his wife, prayed to Dionysus for vengeance. The god drove him mad, and he threw himself into a well.
(2) An Athenian hero, son of the Athenian Pandion and Zeuxippé. A tiller of the soil, and a neat-herd, he was a priest of Athené, the goddess of the stronghold, and of Poseidon Erechthens, and thus ancestor of the priestly caste of the Butadae and Eteobutadae. He shared an altar in the Erechtheum with Poseidon and Hephaestus. The later story represented him as the son of Teleon and Zeuxippé, and as taking part in the expedition of the Argonauts.
(3) A descendant of Amycus, king of the Bebryces. He was one of the Argonants, and on passing the island of the Sirens leaped overboard in order to swim to it, but was caught up by Aphrodité, who conveyed him to Lilybaeum in Sicily. Here she became by him the mother of Eryx (q.v.). He was renowned as a boxer.
(4) An armourbearer of Anchises, and afterwards of Ascanius. Apollo assumed his form when he descended from heaven to encourage Ascanius in battle. Butes was killed by Turnus. See Verg. Aen. ix. 647 foll.