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Busiris
A king of Egypt, who used to immolate to the gods all strangers
who set foot on his shores. Hercules was seized by him; and would have
fallen a victim, but he broke his chain, and slew the inhospitable
king.
Busiris,
according to Milton, is the Pharaoh who was drowned in the Red Sea.
Vex'd the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'er-threw
Busiris and his Memphian chivalry.
Paradise Lost,
book i. 306, 307.
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