Ataby'rius
(
*)Atabu/rios), a surname of Zeus derived from mount Atabyris or Atabyrion in the island of Rhodes, where the Cretan Althaemenes was said to have built a temple to him. (
Apollod. 3.2.1; Appian,
App. Mith. 26.) Upon this mountain there were, it is said, brazen bulls which roared when anything extraordinary was going to happen. (Schol.
ad Pind. Ol. 7.159.)
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