BUTUS (anc. geog.), a town of Lower Egypt, on the west side of the branch of the Nile, called Thermuthiacus; towards the mouth called Ossium Sebenniticum; in this town stood an oracle of Latona, (Strabo, Herodotus). Ptolemy places Butus in the Nomos
Phthenotes: it is also called Buto, us, (Herodotus, Stephanus). It had temples of Apollo and Diana, but the largest was that of Latona where the oracle stood.