Phrasius

A Cyprian soothsayer, who advised Busiris to sacrifice the strangers that came to his dominions for the purpose of averting a scarcity; but Phrasius himself fell a victim to his own advice.

He is also called Thrasius.

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References

Sources

  • Arcadius, xl, 32.
  • Hyginus. Fabulae, 56.
  • Ovid. Ars Amatoria i, 649 A.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 5.11.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.