people
the Centaurs
The half-horse race; with the Lapiths they brawled, drunken, and Hercules met them among the conquered monsters below.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.58.15 Centaurs
Mythical creatures, half man and half horse; cited by the Stoics as a thing that 'is not' yet is conceived by the mind --- a figment with an image but no substance.
- Hercules (Mad) §798 the fierce Centaurs
The half-horse Centaurs, who with the Lapiths fought drunken; among the monsters that quail at Hercules below.
- Hercules on Oeta §1056 carrying its Centaurs
The Centaurs, half-horse beings of Thessaly and the mountains, drawn by Orpheus's song.