plan into effect; but Burrus refused to take any |
foreigners
that entered Egypt.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
1830, Nos.
9 and 10.
) [W.
1.
) called Anthermus, which being very differently
BULBUS, a Roman senator and an unprincipled spelt in the different MSS. has been rejected by
man, was one of the judices at the trial of Oppia- Sillig (Cat. Art. s. v. ), who proposes to read
nicus. Staienus, another of the judices at the trial, Archeneus. The reading Anthernius for the son's
had received a sum of money to secure the acquit- name instead of Athenis has long been generally
tal of Oppianicus; but, although Bulbus had ob given up.
(W. I. ]
tained a share of it, he and Staienus condemned BU'PHAGUS (Boúpayos). 1. A son of Iapetus
Oppianicus. Bulbus was afterwards condemned and Thornaxe, an Arcadian hero and husband of
on a charge of treason (majestas) for attempting to Promne. He received the wounded Iphicles, the
corrupt a legion in Illyricum. (Cic. pro Cluent. 26, brother of Heracles, into his house, and took care
35, c. Verr. ii. 32. )
of him until he died. Buphagus was afterwards
BULBUS, C. ATI'LIUS, was consul in B. C. killed by Artemis for having pursued her. (Paus.
245, a second time in 235, and censor in 234. In viii. 14. § 6, 27. § 11. )
his second consulship, in which he had T. Manlius 2. A surname of Heracles, Lepreus, and others,
Torquatus for a colleague, the temple of Janus was who were believed to have eaten a whole bull at
closed for the first time after the reign of Numa. once. (Apollod. ii. 7. & 7, 5. S 11; Aelian, V. H.
(Fast. Capit. ; Eutrop. ii. 3; Oros. iv. 12; Plut. | i. 24; Eustath. ud Hom. p. 1523. ) [L. S. )
Num. 20; comp. Liv. i. 19. )
BURA (Boupa), a daughter of Ion, the ances-
BULBUS, C. NORBA'NUS. [NORBANUS. ] | tral hero of the lonians, and Helice, from whom
BULIS(Boûlıs) and SPE'RTHIAS (Imepoins), the Achaean town of Bura derived its name.
two Spartans of noble rank, voluntarily offered to (Paus. vii. 25. $ 5 ; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) [L. S. ]
go to Xerxes and offer themselves to punishment, BURA'ICUS (Bovpaïros), a surname of He-
when the hero Talythibius was enraged against racles, derived from the Achaean town of Bura,
the Spartans on account of their having murdered near which he had a statue on the river Buraïcus,
the heralds whom Dareius had sent to Sparta ; and an oracle in a cave. Persons who consulted
but, upon their arrival at Susa, they were dismissed this oracle first said prayers before the statue, and
uninjured by the king. Their names are written then took four dice from a heap which was always
somewhat differently by different authors. (Herod. kept ready, and threw them upon a table. These
vii. 134, &c. ; Plut. Apophth. Lac. 60, p. 235, f. , dice were marked with certain characters, the
Praec. Reipubl. Ger. 19, p. 815, e. ; Lucian, Dem. meaning of which was explained with the help of
Enc. 32; Suidas, s. V. ; Stobaeus, Serm. vii. p. 93. ) a painting which hung in the cave. (Paus. vii. 25.
There was a mournful song upon this Sperthias or $6. )
[L. S. ]
Sperchis, as he is called by Theocritus, which seems BURDO, JUʻLIUS, commander of the fleet in
to have been composed when he and his companion Germany, a. D. 70, was obnoxious to the soldiers,
left Sparta. (Theocr. Id. xv. 98. )
because it was thought that he had had a hand in
BULON (Bobaww), the founder of the town of the death of Fonteius Capito; but he was protect-
Bulis in Phocis. (Paus. x. 37. $ 2; Steph. Byz. ed by Vitellius from the vengeance of the soldiers.
8. υ. Βούλιs. )
[L. S. ) (Tac. Hist. i. 58. )
BUNAEA (Bouvaia), a surname of Hera, de- BUʻRICHUS (Buúpixos), one of the command-
rived from Bunus, the son of Hermes and Alcida- ers of Demetrius Poliorcetes in the sea-fight off
meia, who is said to have built a sanctuary to Hera Cyprus, B. C. 306, was one of the flatterers of the
on the road which led up to Acrocorinthus. (Paus. king, to whom the Athenians erected an altar and
ii. 4. & 7, 3. & 8. )
(L. S. ] a heroum. (Diod. xx. 52; Athen. vi. p. 253, a. )
BU'PALUS, an architect and sculptor of the island C. BURRIE'NUS, praetor urbanus about B. C.
of Chios, where his family is said to have exercised 82. (Cic. pro Quint. 6, 21. )
the art of statuary from the beginning of the BÙRRUS or BURRHUS, AFRANIUS, a
Olympiads. (Plin. 8. N. xxxvi. 5 ; comp. Thiersch, distinguished Roman general under Claudius and
Epoch. Anm. p. 58. ) Bupalus and his brother Nero, who was appointed by Claudius sole prae-
Athenis are said by Pliny (i. c. ) and Suidas (s. v. fectus praetorio, A. D. 52, upon the recommendation
'Itaavat) to have made caricatures of the famous of Agrippina, the wife of the emperor, as she
iambographical poet Hipponax, which the poet re- hoped to obtain more influence over the praetorian
quited by the bitterest satires. (Welcker, Hipp. cohorts by one man being their praefect instead of
fragm. p. 12. ) This story, which we have no two, especially as Burrus was made to feel that he
grounds for doubting, gives at once a pretty certain owed his elevation to her. Burrus and Seneca
date for the age of the two artists, for Hipponax conducted the education of Nero, and although
was a contemporary of Dareius (B. C. 524—485); they were men of very different pursuits, yet they
and it also accounts for their abilities, which for agreed in their endeavours to bring up the young
their time must have been uncommon. This is prince in virtuous habits. When Claudius died in
proved moreover by the fact, that Augustus adorned A. D. 55, Burrus accompanied Nero from the palace
most of his temples at Rome with their works. It to the praetorians, who, at the command of their
is to be noticed that marble was their material. praefect, received Nero with loud acclamations.
In the earlier period of Greek art wood and bronze It appears, indeed, that Nero owed his elevation
was the common material, until by the exertions to the throne chiefly to the influence of Burrus.
of Dipoenus and Scyllis, and the two Chian bro- The executions which Agrippina ordered in the
thers, Bupalus and Athenis, marble became more beginning of Nero's reign were strenuously opposed
general. Welcker (Rhein. Museum, iv. p. 254) has by Burrus and Seneca. When Nero had given
pointed out the great importance which Bupalus orders in A. D. 60 to put his mother Agrippina to
and his brother acquired by forming entire groups death, and was informed that she had escaped with
of statues, which before that time had been wrought a slight wound, he consulted Burrus and Seneca,
as isolated figures. The father of Bupalus and hoping that they would assist him in carrying his
3
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BUTEO.
plan into effect; but Burrus refused to take any | foreigners that entered Egypt. Heracles on his
part in it, and declared that the practorians were arrival in Egypt was likewise seized and led to the
bound to afford their protection to the whole house altar, but he broke his chains and slew Busiris,
of the Caesars. In the same manner Burrus op together with his son Amphidamas or Iphidamas,
posed Nero's design of murdering his wife Octavia. and his herald Chalbes. (Apollod. I. c. ; Schol. ad
At length, however, Nero, who had already threat Apollon. iv. 1396 ; comp. Herod. ï. 45 ; Gell. ii.
ened to deprive Burrus of his post, resolved to get 6 ; Macrob. Sut. vi. 7 ; Hygin. Fab. 31. ) This
rid of his stern and virtuous officer, and accordingly story gave rise to various disputes in later times,
had him killed by poison, A. D. 63. Tacitus, in- when a friendly intercourse between Greece and
deed, states, that it was uncertain whether he died Egypt was established, both nations being anxious
of illness or in consequence of poison, but the to do away with the stigma it attached to the
authority of other writers leaves no doubt that Egyptians. Herodotus (1. c. ) expressly denies that
he was poisoned by the emperor. The death of the Egyptians ever offered human sacrifices, and
Burrus was lamented by all who had felt the bene- | Isocrates (Bus. 15) endeavours to upset the story
ficial influence he had exercised, and the power by shewing, that Heracles must have lived at a
which Seneca had hitherto possessed lost in Burrus much later time than Busiris. Others again said,
its last supporter. (Tacit. Ann. xii. 42, 69, xiii. that it was a tale invented to shew up the inhos-
2, 20, &c. , xiv. 7, 51, 52; Dion Cass. lii. 13; pitable character of the inhabitants of the town of
Suet. Ner. 35. )
(L. S. ] Busiris, and that there never was a king of that
BURSA, a surname of T. Munatius Plancus. name. (Strab. xvii. p. 802. ) Diodorus (i. 88)
[PLANCUS. )
relates on the authority of the Egyptians themselves
BU'RSIO, a cognomen of the Julia gens, which that Busiris was not the name of a king, but
is known only from coins. There is a large num- signified the tomb of Osiris, and that in ancient
ber, which the following is a specimen, bearing times the kings used to sacrifice at this grave men
on the reverse the inscription L. IVLI. BVRSIO, with of red colour (the colour of Typhon), who were
Victory in a four-horse chariot. The head on the for the most part foreigners. Another story gives
obrerse has occasioned great dispute among writers a Greek origin to the name Busiris, by saying that
on coins : on account of its wings and the trident, when Isis had collected the limbs of Osiris, who had
it may perhaps be intended to represent Ocean. been killed by Typhon, she put them together in a
(Eckhel, v. p. 227, &c. )
wooden cow (Bous), whence the name of the town
of Busiris was derived (Diod. i. 85), which con-
tained the principal sanctuary of Isis. (Herod. ii.
59. ) If we may judge from the analogy of other
cases, the name of the town of Busiris was not de-
rived from a king of that name; and indeed the
dynasties of Manethon do not mention a king Bu-
11. BASIS
siris, so that the whole story may be a mere in-
vention of the Greeks, from which we can scarcely
infer anything else than that, in ancient times, the
BUSA, an Apulian woman of noble birth and Egyptians were hostile towards all foreigners, and
great wealth, who supplied with food, clothing, in some cases sacrificed them. Modern scholars,
and provisions for their journey, the Roman sols such as Creuzer and G. Hermann, find a deeper
diers who fled to Canusium after the battle of meaning in the mythus of Busiris than it can pos-
Cannae, B. c. 216. For this act of liberality thanks sibly suggest.
(L. S. )
were afterwards returned her by the senate. (Liv. BUTAS (Bouras), a Greek poet of uncertain
xxii. 52, 54 ; Val. Max. iv. 8. $ 2. )
age, wrote in elegiac verse an account of early
BUSI'RIS (Bovoipes), according to Apollodorus Roman history, from which Plutarch quotes the
(ii. 1. $ 5), a son of Aegyptus, who was killed by fabulous origin of the Lupercalia. It seems to have
the Danaid Automate ; but according to Diodorus been called Attia, like a work of Callimachus, be
(i. 17), be was the governor whom Osiris, on cause it gave the causes or origin of various fables,
setting out on his expedition through the world, rites, and customs. (Plut. Rom. 21; Arnob. v. 18. )
appointed over the north eastern portion of Egypt, BU'TEO, the name of a family of the patrician
which bordered on the sea and Phoenicia. In Fabia gens. This name, which signifies a kind of
another place (i. 45) he speaks of Busiris as an hawk, was originally given to a member of this
Egyptian king, who followed after the 52 succes- gens, because the bird had on one occasion settled
sors of Menas, and states that Busiris was succeeded upon his ship with a favourable omen. (Plin. H. N.
by eight kings, who descended from him, and the x. 8. s. 10. ) We are not told which of the Fabii
last of whom likewise bore the name of Busiris. first obtained this surname, but it was probably
This last Busiris is described as the founder of the one of the Fabii Ambusti. [AMBUSTUS. ]
city of Zeus, which the Greeks called Thebes. 1. N. Fabius M. f. M. N. BUTEO, consul B. C.
Apollodorus, too (ii. 5. l), mentions an Egyd 247, in the first Punic war, was employed in
tian king Busiris, and calls him a son of Poseidon the siege of Drepanum. In 224 he was magister
and Lysianassa, the daughter of Epaphus. Con- cquitum to the dictator L. Caecilius Metellus.
cerning this Busiris the following remarkable story (Zonar. viii. 16; Fast. Capit. )
is told :--Egypt had been visited for nine years M. Fabius M. f. M. n. Buteo, brother ap-
by uninterrupted scarcity, and at last there came a parently of the preceding, was consul B. c. 245.
soothsaver from Cyprus of the name of Phrasius, Florus says (ii. 2. $$ 30, 31), that he gained a
who declared, that the scarcity would cease if the naval victory over the Carthaginians and after-
Egyptians would sacriſce a foreigner to Zeus every wards suffered shipwreck ; but this is a mistake, as
year.
Busiris made the beginning with the pro- we know from Polybius, that the Romans had no
į het himself, and afterwards sacrificed all the feet at that time. “In 216 he was elected dictatur
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519
BUTORIDES.
war.
without a master of the knights, in order to fill up him, and in the Erechtheum on the Acropolis there
the vacancies in the senate occasioned by the battle was an altar dedicated to Butes, and the walls
of Cannae: he added 177 new members to the were decorated with paintings representing scenes
senate, and then laid down his office. (Liv. xxiii. from the history of the family of the Butadae.
22, 23; Plut. Fub. Mux. 9. ) We learn from (Paus. i. 26. $ 6; Harpocrat. , Étym. M. , Hesych.
Livy, who calls him the oldest of the ex-censors, s. v. ; Orph. Arg. 138; Val. Flacc. i. 394; Hygin.
that he had filled the latter office; and it is ac- Fab. 14. ) The Argonaut Butes is also called a
cordingly conjectured that he was the colleague of son of Poseidon (Eustath. ad Hom. xiii. 43); and
C. Aurelius Cotta in the censorship, B. c. 241. In it is said, that when the Argonauts passed by the
the Fasti Capitolini the name of Cotta's colleague Sirens, Orpheus commenced a song to counteract
has disappeared.
the influence of the Sirens, but that Butes alone
3. FABIUS Butro, son of the preceding, was leaped into the sea. Aphrodite, however, saved
accused of theft, and killed in consequence by his him, and carried him to Lily baeum, where she be-
own father. (Oros. iv. 13. ) This event, from the came by him the mother of Eryx. (Apollod. i. 9.
order in which it is mentioned by Orosius, must $ 25; Serv. ad Aen. i. 574, v. 24. ) Diodorus (iv.
bave happened shortly before the second Punic 83), on the other hand, regards this Butes as one
of the native kings of Sicily.
4. M. Fabius Buteo, curule aedile B. C. 203, There are at least four more mythical persons of
and praetor 201, when he obtained Sardinia as his this name, respecting whom nothing of interest can
province. (Liv. xxx.
BULBUS, a Roman senator and an unprincipled spelt in the different MSS. has been rejected by
man, was one of the judices at the trial of Oppia- Sillig (Cat. Art. s. v. ), who proposes to read
nicus. Staienus, another of the judices at the trial, Archeneus. The reading Anthernius for the son's
had received a sum of money to secure the acquit- name instead of Athenis has long been generally
tal of Oppianicus; but, although Bulbus had ob given up.
(W. I. ]
tained a share of it, he and Staienus condemned BU'PHAGUS (Boúpayos). 1. A son of Iapetus
Oppianicus. Bulbus was afterwards condemned and Thornaxe, an Arcadian hero and husband of
on a charge of treason (majestas) for attempting to Promne. He received the wounded Iphicles, the
corrupt a legion in Illyricum. (Cic. pro Cluent. 26, brother of Heracles, into his house, and took care
35, c. Verr. ii. 32. )
of him until he died. Buphagus was afterwards
BULBUS, C. ATI'LIUS, was consul in B. C. killed by Artemis for having pursued her. (Paus.
245, a second time in 235, and censor in 234. In viii. 14. § 6, 27. § 11. )
his second consulship, in which he had T. Manlius 2. A surname of Heracles, Lepreus, and others,
Torquatus for a colleague, the temple of Janus was who were believed to have eaten a whole bull at
closed for the first time after the reign of Numa. once. (Apollod. ii. 7. & 7, 5. S 11; Aelian, V. H.
(Fast. Capit. ; Eutrop. ii. 3; Oros. iv. 12; Plut. | i. 24; Eustath. ud Hom. p. 1523. ) [L. S. )
Num. 20; comp. Liv. i. 19. )
BURA (Boupa), a daughter of Ion, the ances-
BULBUS, C. NORBA'NUS. [NORBANUS. ] | tral hero of the lonians, and Helice, from whom
BULIS(Boûlıs) and SPE'RTHIAS (Imepoins), the Achaean town of Bura derived its name.
two Spartans of noble rank, voluntarily offered to (Paus. vii. 25. $ 5 ; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) [L. S. ]
go to Xerxes and offer themselves to punishment, BURA'ICUS (Bovpaïros), a surname of He-
when the hero Talythibius was enraged against racles, derived from the Achaean town of Bura,
the Spartans on account of their having murdered near which he had a statue on the river Buraïcus,
the heralds whom Dareius had sent to Sparta ; and an oracle in a cave. Persons who consulted
but, upon their arrival at Susa, they were dismissed this oracle first said prayers before the statue, and
uninjured by the king. Their names are written then took four dice from a heap which was always
somewhat differently by different authors. (Herod. kept ready, and threw them upon a table. These
vii. 134, &c. ; Plut. Apophth. Lac. 60, p. 235, f. , dice were marked with certain characters, the
Praec. Reipubl. Ger. 19, p. 815, e. ; Lucian, Dem. meaning of which was explained with the help of
Enc. 32; Suidas, s. V. ; Stobaeus, Serm. vii. p. 93. ) a painting which hung in the cave. (Paus. vii. 25.
There was a mournful song upon this Sperthias or $6. )
[L. S. ]
Sperchis, as he is called by Theocritus, which seems BURDO, JUʻLIUS, commander of the fleet in
to have been composed when he and his companion Germany, a. D. 70, was obnoxious to the soldiers,
left Sparta. (Theocr. Id. xv. 98. )
because it was thought that he had had a hand in
BULON (Bobaww), the founder of the town of the death of Fonteius Capito; but he was protect-
Bulis in Phocis. (Paus. x. 37. $ 2; Steph. Byz. ed by Vitellius from the vengeance of the soldiers.
8. υ. Βούλιs. )
[L. S. ) (Tac. Hist. i. 58. )
BUNAEA (Bouvaia), a surname of Hera, de- BUʻRICHUS (Buúpixos), one of the command-
rived from Bunus, the son of Hermes and Alcida- ers of Demetrius Poliorcetes in the sea-fight off
meia, who is said to have built a sanctuary to Hera Cyprus, B. C. 306, was one of the flatterers of the
on the road which led up to Acrocorinthus. (Paus. king, to whom the Athenians erected an altar and
ii. 4. & 7, 3. & 8. )
(L. S. ] a heroum. (Diod. xx. 52; Athen. vi. p. 253, a. )
BU'PALUS, an architect and sculptor of the island C. BURRIE'NUS, praetor urbanus about B. C.
of Chios, where his family is said to have exercised 82. (Cic. pro Quint. 6, 21. )
the art of statuary from the beginning of the BÙRRUS or BURRHUS, AFRANIUS, a
Olympiads. (Plin. 8. N. xxxvi. 5 ; comp. Thiersch, distinguished Roman general under Claudius and
Epoch. Anm. p. 58. ) Bupalus and his brother Nero, who was appointed by Claudius sole prae-
Athenis are said by Pliny (i. c. ) and Suidas (s. v. fectus praetorio, A. D. 52, upon the recommendation
'Itaavat) to have made caricatures of the famous of Agrippina, the wife of the emperor, as she
iambographical poet Hipponax, which the poet re- hoped to obtain more influence over the praetorian
quited by the bitterest satires. (Welcker, Hipp. cohorts by one man being their praefect instead of
fragm. p. 12. ) This story, which we have no two, especially as Burrus was made to feel that he
grounds for doubting, gives at once a pretty certain owed his elevation to her. Burrus and Seneca
date for the age of the two artists, for Hipponax conducted the education of Nero, and although
was a contemporary of Dareius (B. C. 524—485); they were men of very different pursuits, yet they
and it also accounts for their abilities, which for agreed in their endeavours to bring up the young
their time must have been uncommon. This is prince in virtuous habits. When Claudius died in
proved moreover by the fact, that Augustus adorned A. D. 55, Burrus accompanied Nero from the palace
most of his temples at Rome with their works. It to the praetorians, who, at the command of their
is to be noticed that marble was their material. praefect, received Nero with loud acclamations.
In the earlier period of Greek art wood and bronze It appears, indeed, that Nero owed his elevation
was the common material, until by the exertions to the throne chiefly to the influence of Burrus.
of Dipoenus and Scyllis, and the two Chian bro- The executions which Agrippina ordered in the
thers, Bupalus and Athenis, marble became more beginning of Nero's reign were strenuously opposed
general. Welcker (Rhein. Museum, iv. p. 254) has by Burrus and Seneca. When Nero had given
pointed out the great importance which Bupalus orders in A. D. 60 to put his mother Agrippina to
and his brother acquired by forming entire groups death, and was informed that she had escaped with
of statues, which before that time had been wrought a slight wound, he consulted Burrus and Seneca,
as isolated figures. The father of Bupalus and hoping that they would assist him in carrying his
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518
BUSIRIS.
BUTEO.
plan into effect; but Burrus refused to take any | foreigners that entered Egypt. Heracles on his
part in it, and declared that the practorians were arrival in Egypt was likewise seized and led to the
bound to afford their protection to the whole house altar, but he broke his chains and slew Busiris,
of the Caesars. In the same manner Burrus op together with his son Amphidamas or Iphidamas,
posed Nero's design of murdering his wife Octavia. and his herald Chalbes. (Apollod. I. c. ; Schol. ad
At length, however, Nero, who had already threat Apollon. iv. 1396 ; comp. Herod. ï. 45 ; Gell. ii.
ened to deprive Burrus of his post, resolved to get 6 ; Macrob. Sut. vi. 7 ; Hygin. Fab. 31. ) This
rid of his stern and virtuous officer, and accordingly story gave rise to various disputes in later times,
had him killed by poison, A. D. 63. Tacitus, in- when a friendly intercourse between Greece and
deed, states, that it was uncertain whether he died Egypt was established, both nations being anxious
of illness or in consequence of poison, but the to do away with the stigma it attached to the
authority of other writers leaves no doubt that Egyptians. Herodotus (1. c. ) expressly denies that
he was poisoned by the emperor. The death of the Egyptians ever offered human sacrifices, and
Burrus was lamented by all who had felt the bene- | Isocrates (Bus. 15) endeavours to upset the story
ficial influence he had exercised, and the power by shewing, that Heracles must have lived at a
which Seneca had hitherto possessed lost in Burrus much later time than Busiris. Others again said,
its last supporter. (Tacit. Ann. xii. 42, 69, xiii. that it was a tale invented to shew up the inhos-
2, 20, &c. , xiv. 7, 51, 52; Dion Cass. lii. 13; pitable character of the inhabitants of the town of
Suet. Ner. 35. )
(L. S. ] Busiris, and that there never was a king of that
BURSA, a surname of T. Munatius Plancus. name. (Strab. xvii. p. 802. ) Diodorus (i. 88)
[PLANCUS. )
relates on the authority of the Egyptians themselves
BU'RSIO, a cognomen of the Julia gens, which that Busiris was not the name of a king, but
is known only from coins. There is a large num- signified the tomb of Osiris, and that in ancient
ber, which the following is a specimen, bearing times the kings used to sacrifice at this grave men
on the reverse the inscription L. IVLI. BVRSIO, with of red colour (the colour of Typhon), who were
Victory in a four-horse chariot. The head on the for the most part foreigners. Another story gives
obrerse has occasioned great dispute among writers a Greek origin to the name Busiris, by saying that
on coins : on account of its wings and the trident, when Isis had collected the limbs of Osiris, who had
it may perhaps be intended to represent Ocean. been killed by Typhon, she put them together in a
(Eckhel, v. p. 227, &c. )
wooden cow (Bous), whence the name of the town
of Busiris was derived (Diod. i. 85), which con-
tained the principal sanctuary of Isis. (Herod. ii.
59. ) If we may judge from the analogy of other
cases, the name of the town of Busiris was not de-
rived from a king of that name; and indeed the
dynasties of Manethon do not mention a king Bu-
11. BASIS
siris, so that the whole story may be a mere in-
vention of the Greeks, from which we can scarcely
infer anything else than that, in ancient times, the
BUSA, an Apulian woman of noble birth and Egyptians were hostile towards all foreigners, and
great wealth, who supplied with food, clothing, in some cases sacrificed them. Modern scholars,
and provisions for their journey, the Roman sols such as Creuzer and G. Hermann, find a deeper
diers who fled to Canusium after the battle of meaning in the mythus of Busiris than it can pos-
Cannae, B. c. 216. For this act of liberality thanks sibly suggest.
(L. S. )
were afterwards returned her by the senate. (Liv. BUTAS (Bouras), a Greek poet of uncertain
xxii. 52, 54 ; Val. Max. iv. 8. $ 2. )
age, wrote in elegiac verse an account of early
BUSI'RIS (Bovoipes), according to Apollodorus Roman history, from which Plutarch quotes the
(ii. 1. $ 5), a son of Aegyptus, who was killed by fabulous origin of the Lupercalia. It seems to have
the Danaid Automate ; but according to Diodorus been called Attia, like a work of Callimachus, be
(i. 17), be was the governor whom Osiris, on cause it gave the causes or origin of various fables,
setting out on his expedition through the world, rites, and customs. (Plut. Rom. 21; Arnob. v. 18. )
appointed over the north eastern portion of Egypt, BU'TEO, the name of a family of the patrician
which bordered on the sea and Phoenicia. In Fabia gens. This name, which signifies a kind of
another place (i. 45) he speaks of Busiris as an hawk, was originally given to a member of this
Egyptian king, who followed after the 52 succes- gens, because the bird had on one occasion settled
sors of Menas, and states that Busiris was succeeded upon his ship with a favourable omen. (Plin. H. N.
by eight kings, who descended from him, and the x. 8. s. 10. ) We are not told which of the Fabii
last of whom likewise bore the name of Busiris. first obtained this surname, but it was probably
This last Busiris is described as the founder of the one of the Fabii Ambusti. [AMBUSTUS. ]
city of Zeus, which the Greeks called Thebes. 1. N. Fabius M. f. M. N. BUTEO, consul B. C.
Apollodorus, too (ii. 5. l), mentions an Egyd 247, in the first Punic war, was employed in
tian king Busiris, and calls him a son of Poseidon the siege of Drepanum. In 224 he was magister
and Lysianassa, the daughter of Epaphus. Con- cquitum to the dictator L. Caecilius Metellus.
cerning this Busiris the following remarkable story (Zonar. viii. 16; Fast. Capit. )
is told :--Egypt had been visited for nine years M. Fabius M. f. M. n. Buteo, brother ap-
by uninterrupted scarcity, and at last there came a parently of the preceding, was consul B. c. 245.
soothsaver from Cyprus of the name of Phrasius, Florus says (ii. 2. $$ 30, 31), that he gained a
who declared, that the scarcity would cease if the naval victory over the Carthaginians and after-
Egyptians would sacriſce a foreigner to Zeus every wards suffered shipwreck ; but this is a mistake, as
year.
Busiris made the beginning with the pro- we know from Polybius, that the Romans had no
į het himself, and afterwards sacrificed all the feet at that time. “In 216 he was elected dictatur
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BUTORIDES.
war.
without a master of the knights, in order to fill up him, and in the Erechtheum on the Acropolis there
the vacancies in the senate occasioned by the battle was an altar dedicated to Butes, and the walls
of Cannae: he added 177 new members to the were decorated with paintings representing scenes
senate, and then laid down his office. (Liv. xxiii. from the history of the family of the Butadae.
22, 23; Plut. Fub. Mux. 9. ) We learn from (Paus. i. 26. $ 6; Harpocrat. , Étym. M. , Hesych.
Livy, who calls him the oldest of the ex-censors, s. v. ; Orph. Arg. 138; Val. Flacc. i. 394; Hygin.
that he had filled the latter office; and it is ac- Fab. 14. ) The Argonaut Butes is also called a
cordingly conjectured that he was the colleague of son of Poseidon (Eustath. ad Hom. xiii. 43); and
C. Aurelius Cotta in the censorship, B. c. 241. In it is said, that when the Argonauts passed by the
the Fasti Capitolini the name of Cotta's colleague Sirens, Orpheus commenced a song to counteract
has disappeared.
the influence of the Sirens, but that Butes alone
3. FABIUS Butro, son of the preceding, was leaped into the sea. Aphrodite, however, saved
accused of theft, and killed in consequence by his him, and carried him to Lily baeum, where she be-
own father. (Oros. iv. 13. ) This event, from the came by him the mother of Eryx. (Apollod. i. 9.
order in which it is mentioned by Orosius, must $ 25; Serv. ad Aen. i. 574, v. 24. ) Diodorus (iv.
bave happened shortly before the second Punic 83), on the other hand, regards this Butes as one
of the native kings of Sicily.
4. M. Fabius Buteo, curule aedile B. C. 203, There are at least four more mythical persons of
and praetor 201, when he obtained Sardinia as his this name, respecting whom nothing of interest can
province. (Liv. xxx.
