Brewer's: 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.

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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