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Dirce
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Dircē | Dircaeus, a, um (noun F) : (acc. Dircam, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 65), , = Δίρκη.
* A fountain N. W. of Thebes, in Boeotia, Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 25; Ov. M. 2, 239; Stat. Th. 1, 38.
* Meton., poet., the region lying around this fountain, Stat. Th. 2, 322.—Hence, , , adj., Dircean; hence (pars pro toto), Boeotian: Thebae,Prop. 3, 17, 33 (4, 16, 33 M.); cf. ager,Stat. Ach. 1, 12: arva,Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 320: Amphion,Verg. E. 2, 24: cygnus,i. e. Pindar,Hor. C. 4, 2, 25: heros,i. e. Polynices,Stat. Th. 2, 142 et saep.
* The wife of the Theban prince Lycus, who, on account of her cruelty to Antiope, was tied to a bull by Amphion and Zetheus, and dragged about till dead, and was afterwards thrown (changed, acc. to the fable) into the above-named fountain, Prop. 3, 15, 13 (4, 14, 11 M.); Hyg. Fab. 7 and 8; Plaut. l. l.
* A fountain N. W. of Thebes, in Boeotia, Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 25; Ov. M. 2, 239; Stat. Th. 1, 38.
* Meton., poet., the region lying around this fountain, Stat. Th. 2, 322.—Hence, , , adj., Dircean; hence (pars pro toto), Boeotian: Thebae,Prop. 3, 17, 33 (4, 16, 33 M.); cf. ager,Stat. Ach. 1, 12: arva,Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 320: Amphion,Verg. E. 2, 24: cygnus,i. e. Pindar,Hor. C. 4, 2, 25: heros,i. e. Polynices,Stat. Th. 2, 142 et saep.
* The wife of the Theban prince Lycus, who, on account of her cruelty to Antiope, was tied to a bull by Amphion and Zetheus, and dragged about till dead, and was afterwards thrown (changed, acc. to the fable) into the above-named fountain, Prop. 3, 15, 13 (4, 14, 11 M.); Hyg. Fab. 7 and 8; Plaut. l. l.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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