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.; hesiod. scut. herc. , &c.) now, in these earliest accounts, the centaurs appear merely as a sort of gigantic, savage, or animal-like beings; whereas, in later writers, they are described as monsters (hippocentaurs), whose bodies were partly human and partly those of horses. this strange mixture of
thus on the four-spoked wheel he gave his limbs to bondage, his own destruction. from whence is no escape, he heard the message that he must spread to all the world. far were the kharites (charites, graces) when the mother [nephele] bore--ne'er such a mother, never such a son--her babe of monstrous breed...
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