[Meaning] a scoundrel. [This application of the name comes] from the man sent by Croesus for negotiations with money, as Ephoros says, who then changed sides and joined Cyrus. This man was an Ephesian.[1] But some say he was one of the two Kerkopes. Diotimos in The Labors of Herakles [writes]: "Kerkopes stalking the crossroads ravaged much of the Boiotians' property. They were Oichalians by birth, Olos and Eurybatos, two hard-hearted men."[2] Nicander [writes]: "Aiginean Eurybatos the complete scoundrel."[3] Aristotle mentions him in Book 1 of On Justice.[4] And Douris, in Book 4 of The History of Agathokles, [says the name comes] from the companion of Odysseus.[5] Also Aristophanes in Daidalos, portraying Zeus changing himself into several things, including a rich man and a ne'er-do-well, [writes]: "if in fact any of you has seen Eurybatos Zeus."[6] "It is said that Eurybatos was a thief, imprisoned and put under guard. When his guards got drunk and untied him, they urged him to demonstrate how to clamber up on top of buildings. At first he refused, but they kept asking, though he was not willing, and when at last they persuaded him he put on sponges and spikes and ran up onto the walls. As they were looking up and admiring his skill, he took hold of the roofing material and threw it back, before they could come around to encircle him, and jumped down through the roof."[7]