person
Bittis
The beloved of the Coan poet-scholar Philitas, paired with Lyde as a literary model for Ovid's praise of his wife.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.1 Coan Bittis
Bittis, the beloved celebrated by the poet Philitas of Cos; Ovid tells his wife she is as famed in his verse as Bittis in Philitas's.
- Sorrows §1.6 Bittis
The beloved of the Coan poet Philitas, paired with Lyde as a model for praising one's wife.