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Busiris, the son of Poseidon and Anippê,
daughter of the Nile, with treacherous hospitality
was wont to sacrifice such persons as passed his way.
But there came upon him vengeance for those that
had perished by his hand. For Heracles attacked
him with his club and slew him.1 So Agathon of
Samos.
When Hercules was driving through Italy the
cattle of Geryon, he was entertained, by king Faunus,
the son of Mercury, who was wont to sacrifice his
guests to the god that was his father. But when he
attacked Hercules, he was slain. So Dercyllus in the
third book of his Italian History.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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