| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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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. | 1 |
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Busi’ris, according to Milton, is the Pharaoh who was drowned in the Red Sea. | 2 |
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| “Vex’d the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o’er-threw |
| Busiris and his Memphian chivalry.” | |
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Paradise Lost, book i. 306, 307. |
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