Butes

Family: Argonauts · Role: hero · First appears: Book I 1

Life events

• Butes swims toward the Sirens, but Cypris rescues him and carries him to the Lilybean height.(Book IV 7 · 📍 Lilybean height)
  • With: Cypris
  • “Quickly would they have robbed him of his return then and there, but the goddess that rules Eryx, Cypris, in pity snatched him away, while yet in the eddies, and graciously meeting him saved him to dwell on the Lilybean height.”

Book I 1

• parent: Teleon “warlike Butes, son of brave Teleon”

Book IV 7

• parent: Teleon “the goodly son of Teleon alone of the comrades leapt before them all from the polished bench into the sea, even Butes”
• patron: Cypris “but the goddess that rules Eryx, Cypris, in pity snatched him away, while yet in the eddies, and graciously meeting him saved him to dwell on the Lilybean height”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.