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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 132 0 Browse Search
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T. Maccius Plautus, Pseudolus, or The Cheat (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 2 (search)
sons of Jupiter fastened DirceFastened Dirce: Dirce was married to Lycus, the King of Thebes, after he had divorced Antiope. On this, Zethus and Amphion, the sons of the latter by Jupiter, caused the supplanter of their mother to be fastened to the tail of a wild bull, and put Lycus to death. to the bull, aye, this day as well, will I tie you up to the larder; that, in fact, shall be your bull. CALIDORUS apart. I'm quite enraged by the talk of this fellow; that we should suffer the youth of Attica to encourage hereTo encourage here: As being the minister of their pleasures. this fellow! Where are they--where are they skulking, they of mature age, who have their amorous dealings with this procurer? Why don't they meet? Why don't they one and all deliver the public from this pestilence? But I am very simple, and very ignorant; they would venture, of course, to do that to those, to whom their passions compel them, to their misfortune, to be subservient, and, at the same time, prevent th