A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Βούριχος), one of the commanders of Demetrius Poliorcetes in the sea-fight off Cyprus, B. C. 306, was one of the flatterers of the king, to whom the Athenians erected an altar and a heroum. (Diod. 20.52; Athen. 6.253a.)