Batyllus
(around 520 B.C.) Greece
Beloved of Anacreon
References to a Batyllus are found in the writing of Horace (epode 14) who describes him as beloved of Polycrates the Tyrant and the poet, Anacreon, who described him in his 29th ode.
Several odes of Anacreon are addressed to his young boyfriend Batyllus, like the following one:
"O boy, with virgin-glancing eye,
I call thee, but thou dost not hear;
Thou know'st not how my soul doth cry
For thee, its charioteer."
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