Bathyllus.

A beautiful boy of Samos, greatly beloved by Polycrătēs the tyrant, and by the poet Anacreon. (See Horace: Epistle xiv. 9.)

“To them [i.e. the æsthetic school] the boyhood of Bathyllus is of more moment than the manhood of Napoleon.”—Mallock: The New Republic, book iv. chap. 1.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Bath Brick
Bath Chair (A)
Bath Metal
Bath Post
Bath Shillings
Bath Stone
Bath (Major)
Bath-kol (daughter of the voice)
Bathos [Greek, bathos, depth]
Bathsheba
Bathyllus
Batiste
Batrachomyomachia (pronounce Ba-trako-myo-makia)
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Battels
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Battle of the Frogs and Mice (The)
Battle of the Kegs (The)
Battle of the Poets (The)