in Ancient Geography, a city of the Lower Egypt, to the south of Leontopolis, on that branch of the Nile called Busiriticus; built by Busiris, noted for his cruelty, and slain by Hercules (Ovid, Virgil, Diodorus Siculus). Strabo denies such a tyrant ever existed; Isocrates has written his panegyric. In this city there stood a grand temple of Isis, which gave it the appellation of the city of Isis. It was destroyed on a revolt by Dioclesian.

BUSIRITICUS Fluvius, in Ancient Geography, that branch of the Nile which empties itself at the mouth called Ostium Pathmeticum, or Phatnmeticum (Ptolemy); also a part according to an ancient map at the Ostium Mindesium; this river, or branch, dividing itself at Diospolis into two branches; called Busiriticus, from the city of Busiris, which stood on its left or west branch. It is the second branch of the Nile, reckoning from the east.

BUSIRITICUS Nomos, in Ancient Geography, a prefecture, or division of the Lower Egypt; so called from the city Busiris, (Herodotus, Pliny, Ptolemy).