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Busiris, the son of Neptune and Anippe the daughter of Nilus, was used to invite strangers in to him under
a pretence of hospitality, and then to murder them; but
divine vengeance met with him at last, for Hercules found
out the villany, and killed him with his club. —Agatho
the Samian.
Hercules, as he was driving Geryon's oxen through
Italy, took up his lodging with King Faunus there, the
son of Mercury, whose custom it was to sacrifice strangers
to his father. He set upon Hercules, and had his brains
beaten out for his pains.—Dercyllus's Third Book of
Italian History.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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