He wondered to see the lance leaning against the tree, the shield on the ground, and Don Quixote in armour and dejected, with the saddest and most melancholy face that sadness itself could produce; and going up to him he said, "Be not so cast down, good man, for you have not fallen into the hands of any inhuman
Busiris, but into Roque Guinart's, which are more merciful than cruel."
Quien no conoce al duro Euristeo y las aras sangrientas del infame
Busiris" (131-32).
(30) Jean Giraudoux, La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu, Paris, Grasset, 1935, acte II, scene V a la p 121 (<<[m]on cher
Busiris, nous savons tous ici que le droit est la plus puissante des ecoles de l'imagination.
Greco-Roman literature, Egypt is also the home of
Busiris and human
'His appearance is especially important', Snowden tells us, 'because it shows us one of the ways blacks were employed--namely as bath attendants--attested elsewhere in art and literature.' (13) Similarly, the head of a figure of one of the servants of the mythological Egyptian king,
Busiris, is excerpted from a larger scene on a red-figure vase in an argument illustrating that the Greeks could accurately represent, and therefore were familiar with, both 'pure' negroid types and 'black-white crosses' (Fig.