Those who escaped to Canusium, being received by the people of that place within their walls and houses only, were assisted with corn, clothes, and provisions for their journey, by an Apulian lady, named BUSA, distinguished for her family and riches; in return for which munificence, the senate afterwards, when the war was concluded, conferred honours upon her.
"The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six"
Titus Livius
But the great number of her guests rendered the burden more oppressive to BUSA, for they amounted now to ten thousand men.
"The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six"
Titus Livius
217 BUSA, Elisej, ii.
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