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.