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son of Dryas
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Diomed recounts that Lycurgus drove and beat Bacchus’s nursing women while pursuing them through Nysa.
“He it was that drove the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus beat them with his oxgoad.”
Diomed recounts that Lycurgus attacked Bacchus’s women, terrified Bacchus, was blinded by Jove, and soon died hated by the gods.
“valiant Lycurgus, son of Dryas, did not live long when he took to fighting with the gods. He it was that drove the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus beat them with his oxgoad. Bacchus himself plunged terror-stricken into the sea, and Thetis took him to her bosom to comfort him, for he was scared by the fury with which the man reviled him. Thereon the gods who live at ease were angry with Lycurgus and the son of Saturn struck him blind, nor did he live much longer after he had become hateful to the immortals”
Nestor says Lycurgus killed Areithous by trapping him in a narrow way where his mace was useless, then spearing him through the middle.
“Lycurgus killed him, not in fair fight, but by entrapping him in a narrow way where his mace served him in no stead; for Lycurgus was too quick for him and speared him through the middle”
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“valiant Lycurgus, son of Dryas”