Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Bousiris: a city of Egypt. "In it is a very great sanctuary of Isis. It is situated in the middle of Egypt in the Delta. Isis is in the tongue of the Greeks Demeter". As others, Isis is said to have buried Osiris there, having put him into a wooden cow, so that the city is Bousosiris. Others, that Bousiris was a toparch appointed by Osiris. The citizen Bousirites.
External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.
Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.
Βούσιρις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. “ἐν ταύτῃ Ἴσιος μέγιστον ἱερόν. ἵδρυται δ´ ἐν μέσῳ τῆς Αἰγύπτου ἐν τῷ Δέλτα. Ἶσις δ´ ἐστὶ κατὰ τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων γλῶσσαν ἡ Δημήτηρ”. ὡς δ´ ἄλλοι, ἐκεῖ λέγεται θάψαι τὸν Ὄσιριν Ἶσις ἐμβαλοῦσα εἰς ξυλίνην βοῦν, ὥστε Βουσόσιριν εἶναι τὴν πόλιν. οἱ δ´ ὅτι τοπάρχης ἦν ὁ Βούσιρις ὑπὸ Ὀσίριδος κατασταθείς. ὁ πολίτης Βουσιρίτης.
… Ἀρκαδίας. Ῥιανὸς ἐν Ἠλιακῶν πρώτῳ—βαρύνεται. * Ἔτι τὰ εἰς 'ρις' ἔχοντα πρὸ τοῦ 'ρ' ἕν τι τῶν μέσων ὀξύνεται, Ἀλεξανδρίς, Ταναγρίς, Καλαβρίς. τὸ δὲ Λίηβρις πόλις Φοινίκων βαρύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'ρις' Αἰγύπτια προπαροξύνεται, Βούσιρις πόλις Αἰγύπτου. «ἐν ταύτῃ Ἴσιος μέγιστον ἱερόν. ἵδρυται δ´ ἐν μέσῳ τῆς Αἰγύπτου ἐν τῷ Δέλτα. Ἶσις δ´ ἐστὶ κατὰ τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων γλῶσσαν ἡ Δημήτηρ» (Herodot. II 59). ὡς δ´ ἄλλοι, ἐκεῖ λέγεται θάψαι τὸν Ὄσιριν Ἶσις ἐμβαλοῦσα εἰς ξυλίνην βοῦν, ὥστε Βουσόσιριν εἶναι τὴν πόλιν. οἱ δ´ ὅτι τοπάρχης ἦν Βούσιρις ὑπὸ Ὀσίριδος κατασταθείς. Ὄσιρις Αἰγυπτιστὶ ὁ Διόνυσος. Ταφόσιρις πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἐν ᾗ λέγεται Ὄσιρις τεθάφθαι. καλάσιρις λινοῦς χιτὼν ἱερατικὸς καὶ μοῖρα τῶν μαχίμων ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ οἱ καὶ Ἑρμοτυμβιεῖς. Ἡρόδοτος δε…