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Butos

Butos · f

the chief city of the

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What it meant

Būtŏs — Lewis & Short

Būtŏs, i, f., = *bou=tos,

I the chief city of the nomos Ptenethu in Egypt, upon the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile; containing a famous temple and oracle of Latona (Buto), Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 64.—Hence, Būtĭcus, a, um, adj., of Butos: linum, Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 14.

Where it came from

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