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Būsīris , ĭdis and ĭdos (ĭdis, Verg. G. 3, 5;
I.ìdos,Stat. Th. 12, 155; acc. Busiridem, Quint. 2, 7, 4; Hyg. Fab. 31; 56; Serv.ad Verg. A. 8, 300: “Busirin,Ov. A. A. 1, 649; id. M. 9, 183: “Busirim,Amm. 28, 1, 46), = Βούσῖρις.
I. Masc., a king of Egypt, who sacrificed strangers, and was himself slain by Hercules, Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 15; Verg. G. 3, 5; Mythogr. Lat. 1, 65; 2, 157; Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 39; Macr. S. 3, 5, 9.—
II. Fem., a considerable town in Lower Egypt, with a temple of Isis, now Abousir, Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 64.—
B. A village near the Great Pyramid, Plin. 36, 12, 16, § 76.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.183
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.300
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.5
    • Cicero, De Republica, 3.9
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 7.4
    • Ovid, Tristia, 3.11
    • Statius, Thebias, 12
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