Κένταυρος: Difference between revisions
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ὁμοῦ ἦν καὶ ἔχειν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸ γένος ὅλον μετὰ τῆς πόλεως → it was much the same thing to have the city and to have the whole race together with the city
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English (LSJ)
ὁ (in Luc.Zeux.4 also ἡ), Centaur: I in Ep., a savage race, dwelling between Pelion and Ossa, Il.11.832, Od.21.295 sq. (opp. ἄνδρες, ib.303), Hes.Sc.184, h.Merc.224 (perh. in signf. 11), Batr.171: hence, brigands, Hsch. II later, monsters of double shape, half-man and half-horse, Pi.P.2.44, etc., cf. Arist. Insomn.461b20, D.S.4.69: prov., οὐ παρὰ Κενταύροισι 'we don't live in fairyland', Telecl.45. III the constellation Centaurus, Eudox. ap.Hipparch.1.2.20. IV = παιδεραστής, from the brutal sensuality ascribed to the Centaurs, Hsch. 2 the pudenda, Theopomp.Com.89.
