BUSIRIS  , in a See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend preserved in a fragment of Pherecydes, an See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king, son of See also:

• POSEIDON

Poseidon and Lyssianassa . After See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt has been afflicted for nine years with See also:

• FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine, Phrasius, a seer of See also:

• CYPRUS
• CYPRUS, CHURCH OF

Cyprus, arrived in Egypt and announced that the cessation of the famine would not take See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place until a foreigner was yearly sacrificed to See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus or See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter . Busiris commenced by sacrificing the See also:

• PROPHET (Irpo4i ri7s)

prophet, and continued the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom by offering a foreigner on the See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar of the See also:

• GOD

god . It is here that Busiris enters into the circle of the myths and parerga of Heracles, who had arrived in Egypt from See also:

• LIBYA

Libya, and was seized and See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound ready to be killed and offered at the altar of Zeus in See also:

• MEMPHIS

Memphis . Heracles burst the bonds which bound him, and, seizing his See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club, slew Busiris with his son Amphidamas and his See also:

• HERALD (O. Fr. heraut, herault; the origin is uncertain, but O.H.G. heren, to call, or hariwald, leader of an army, have been proposed; the Gr. equivalent is Kddpvi : Lat. praeco, caduceator, fetialis)

herald Chalbes . This exploit is often represented on See also:

• VASE
• VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)

vase paintings from the 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C. and onwards, the Egyptian monarch and his companions being represented as negroes, and the legend is referred to by See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus and later writers . Although some of the Greek writers made Busiris an Egyptian king and a successor of See also:

• MENES

Menes, about the sixtieth of the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, and the builder of See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes, those better informed by the Egyptians rejected him altogether . Various esoterical explanations were given of the myth, and the name not found as a king was recognized as that of the See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb of See also:

• OSIRIS

Osiris . Busiris is here probably an earlier and less accurate Graecism than Osiris for the name of the Egyptian god Usiri, like See also:

• BUBASTIS

Bubastis, See also:

• BUTO

Buto, for the goddesses Ubasti and Uto . Busiris, Bubastis, Buto, more strictly represent Pusiri, Pubasti, Puto, cities sacred to these divinities . All three were situated in the See also:

• DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

Delta, and would be amongst the first known to the Greeks . All shrines of Osiris were called P-usiri, but the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of the name was in the centre of the Delta, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the 9th (Busirite) See also:

• NOME

nome of See also:

• LOWER

Lower Egypt; another one near Memphis (now Abusir) may have helped the formation of the legend in that See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter .

The name Busiris in this legend may have been caught up merely at See also:

• RANDOM (older forms randon, randrun; from the French, cf. randir, to run quickly, impetuously; generally taken to be of Teutonic origin and connected with Ger. Rand, edge, brim, the idea being possibly of a brimming river)

random by the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early Greeks, or they may have vaguely connected their legend with the Egyptian myth of the slaying of Osiris (as king of Egypt) by his mighty See also:

• BROTHER

brother See also:

• SETH
• SETH (Egyptian Set, Sth~~~{{{or Sts)
• SETH (I* according to Dillmann, " setting " or " slip "; Septuagint, Philo and New Testament, fie, but r Chron. i. 1 Ells in A ; Josephus, EfjOor, Vulg. Seth)

Seth, who was in certain aspects a See also:

• PATRON

patron of foreigners . Phrasius, Chalbes and Epaphus (for the grandfather of Busiris) are all explicable as Graecized Egyptian names, but other names in the legend are purely Greek . The See also:

• SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

sacrifice of See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign prisoners before a god, a See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene on See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple walls, is perhaps only symbolical, at any See also:

• RATE

rate for the later days of Egyptian See also:

• HISTORY

history, but foreign intruders must often have suffered See also:

• RUDE, FRANCOIS (1784–1855)

rude treatment at the hands of the Egyptians, in spite of the generally mild See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the latter . ' See H. v . Gartringen, in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, for the See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence from the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of classical See also:

• ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

archaeology . (F . Lt .