Φρασιος

A seer and a native of Cyprus, who visited Egypt during a famine and predicted to BUSIRIS, the king of that country, that the famine would end if a stranger were sacrificed every year. Busiris acted on his advice and began by sacrificing Phrasius.

{E2 DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY}

Table of Sources:
- Apollod. Bibl. 2,5,11;
- Hyg. Fab. 55;
- Ovid, Ars Am. 1,649.

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