BUTUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Lower Egypt, on the west side of the branch of the Nile, called Thermathiacus; towards the mouth called Ostium 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.