§4.155.1ἐνθεῦτεν δὲ τὴν Φρονίμην παραλαβὼν Πολύμνηστος, ἐὼν τῶν Θηραίων ἀνὴρ δόκιμος, ἐπαλλακεύετο.
After this, Polymnestus, a distinguished man among the Theraeans, took Phronime and made her his concubine.
χρόνου δὲ περιιόντος ἐξεγένετό οἱ παῖς ἰσχόφωνος καὶ τραυλός, τῷ οὔνομα ἐτέθη Βάττος, ὡς Θηραῖοι τε καὶ Κυρηναῖοι λέγουσι, ὡς μέντοι ἐγὼ δοκέω, ἄλλο τι·
As time went on, a son was born to him, who had a stutter and a lisp, to whom the name Battus was given, as the Theraeans and Cyrenaeans say; however, in my opinion, it was something else.
§4.155.2Βάττος δὲ μετωνομάσθη, ἐπείτε ἐς Λιβύην ἀπίκετο, ἀπό τε τοῦ χρηστηρίου τοῦ γενομένου ἐν Δελφοῖσι αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς τὴν ἔσχε τὴν ἐπωνυμίην ποιεύμενος.
And he was renamed Battus when he arrived in Libya, taking this surname both from the oracle that was given to him in Delphi and from the honorable office that he held.
Λίβυες γὰρ βασιλέα βάττον καλέουσι, καὶ τούτου εἵνεκα δοκέω θεσπίζουσαν τὴν Πυθίην καλέσαι μιν Λιβυκῇ γλώσσῃ, εἰδυῖαν ὡς βασιλεὺς ἔσται ἐν Λιβύῃ.
For the Libyans call a king "battus," and for this reason I think that the Pythia, in her prophesying, called him so in the Libyan tongue, knowing that he would be king in Libya.
§4.155.3ἐπείτε γὰρ ἠνδρώθη οὗτος, ἦλθε ἐς Δελφοὺς περὶ τῆς φωνῆς· ἐπειρωτῶντι δέ οἱ χρᾷ ἡ Πυθίη τάδε. "
Βάττʼ ἐπὶ φωνὴν ἦλθες. ἄναξ δέ σε Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων
ἐς Λιβύην πέμπει μηλοτρόφον οἰκιστῆρα,
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ὥσπερ εἰ εἴποι Ἑλλάδι γλώσσῃ χρεωμένη
ὦ βασιλεῦ, ἐπὶ φωνὴν ἦλθες. §4.155.4ὃ δʼ ἀμείβετο τοῖσιδε. ὦναξ, ἐγὼ μὲν ἦλθον παρὰ σὲ χρησάμενος περὶ τῆς φωνῆς, σὺ δέ μοι ἄλλα ἀδύνατα χρᾷς, κελεύων Λιβύην ἀποικίζειν τέῳ δυνάμι, κοίῃ χειρί; ταῦτα λέγων οὐκὶ ἔπειθε ἄλλα οἱ χρᾶν· ὡς δε κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐθέσπιζέ οἱ καὶ πρότερον, οἴχετο μεταξὺ ἀπολιπὼν ὁ Βάττος ἐς τὴν Θήρην.
For when this man grew to manhood, he went to Delphi to inquire about his voice; and as he asked, the Pythia gave him this oracle: "Battus, you have come for a voice; but Lord Phoebus Apollo sends you to sheep-breeding Libya to be a founder of a colony, "just as if she, using the Greek tongue, had said, "O king, you have come for a voice." And he answered her with these words: "O Lord, I indeed came to you to inquire about my voice, but you declare to me other impossible things, ordering me to colonize Libya; with what power, with what hand?" Though he said this, he could not persuade her to give him another oracle; and when she prophesied to him in the same way as before, Battus left her in the middle of it and went away to Thera.