Busīris

, a king of Egypt, son of Neptune and Libya, or Lysiana a, who sacrificed all foreigners to Jupiter with the greatest cruelty. When Hercules visited Egypt, Busiris carried him to the altar bound hand and foot. The hero soon disentangled himself, and offered the tyrant, his son Amphidamas, and the ministers of his cruelty, on the altar. Many Egyptian princes have borne the same name. One of them built a town called Busiris , ♦ in the middle of the Delta, where Isis had a famous temple. Hero dot us , bk. 2 , chs. 59 & 61.— Strabo , bk. 17 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 9 , li. 132 ; Heroides , poem 9, li. 69 .— Plutarch , These us .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 3 , li. 5 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , ch. 5 . ♦ extraneous ‘and’ removed