Nisus
King of Megara and father of Scylla.
Scylla, having fallen in love with Minos when he was besieging Megara, pulled out the purple hair which grew on the top of her father's head, and on which his life depended.
Nisus thereupon died, and Minos, getting possession of the city, ordered Scylla to be drowned in the Saronic Gulf. Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, is sometimes confounded by the poets with Scylla, the daughter of Phorcus.