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1. A son of Boreas, a Thracian, was hostile towards his step-brother Lycurgus, and therefore
compelled by his father to emigrate. He accordingly went with a band of colonists to the
island of Strongyle, afterwards called Naxos. But as he and his companions had no women, they
made predatory excursions, and also came to Thessaly, where they carried off the women who
were just celebrating a festival of Dionysus. Butes himself took Coronis; but she invoked
Dionysus, who struck Butes with madness, so that he threw himself into a well. (