Dir'ce, wife of Lycus, treated with great cruelty her husband's divorced wife Antiope. The sons of Zeus by Antiope took vengeance on their mother's foe by tying her to a wild bull, which dragged her about till she died—a subject represented in a famous antique statue group.
Dir'ce
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 7
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