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Both these subjects were extremely popular among the Greeks,
and more particularly with the Athenians, who regarded them as
not altogether fictitious, but as interwoven with their early history,
and affording proofs of the military prowess of their heroic ancestor,
Theseus.
BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS AND LAPITtLE.
The story of the Centaurs is of Thessalian origin. (i) The people
of Thessaly were remarkably expert in horsemanship, (2) and were
supposed to be the first in Greece who practised the art of riding on
horseback. (3) Pelion, and other mountains in this part of Greece,
abounding in wild bulls, these ferocious animals were frequently
hunted by the people of the country on horseback, (4) and when
1 KsvTuupu), QsTTdXwcp wXaa-fj-an. Clem. Alex. Strom, lib. iii. p. 477-
2 Frena Pelethronii Lapithae gyrosque dedere
Impositi dorso, atque equitem docuere sub armis
Insultare solo, et gressus glomerare superbos.
Virgil. Geor. lib. iii. v. 115.
Justin says, that Philip II. of Macedon wished to make himself master of Thessaly
for no other reason than that he might add the Thessalian horsemen to his army: Hinc
Thessaliani, non prcedw cupiditate, sed quod eccercitui suo robur Thessalorum equitum
adjungere gestiebat, nihil minus quam bellicm rnetuentem, improvisus expugnat. Justin,
lib. vii. c. 6'.
3 Primus ab asquorea percussis cuspide saxis
Thessalicus sonipes, bellis feralibus omen,
Exsiluit: primus chalybem, frenosque momordit,
Spumavitque novis Lapithag domitoris habenis.
Lucan. lib. yi. v 396.
* 'Jfclovog /3a<riAEa>j ovrog Qscro-aXlag, h rcu FIijA/a) opei an^ypw^ ravpwv aye\r\, xa) t« Aoma tcuv
ipuiV cipciTci hnolst. Elf yap ra olxovpsva xanovreg ol Tuupoi, ecrivov to. levlpa, xa) rovg xapnohg,
xa\ ra \mo\\(iy\a crvvdiecpSeipav. 'Exypvfcev ovv 6 '1%'icuv, cog, Si Tig dveXoi rovg ravpoug, tqvtco dcocreiv
■^ptjj^ura TTapwoXXa. Neayi'craof U rmg ex Ttjg mcupelag, ex xco^g nvbg xaXov^ev^g Ns<pEA>!J,
Both these subjects were extremely popular among the Greeks,
and more particularly with the Athenians, who regarded them as
not altogether fictitious, but as interwoven with their early history,
and affording proofs of the military prowess of their heroic ancestor,
Theseus.
BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS AND LAPITtLE.
The story of the Centaurs is of Thessalian origin. (i) The people
of Thessaly were remarkably expert in horsemanship, (2) and were
supposed to be the first in Greece who practised the art of riding on
horseback. (3) Pelion, and other mountains in this part of Greece,
abounding in wild bulls, these ferocious animals were frequently
hunted by the people of the country on horseback, (4) and when
1 KsvTuupu), QsTTdXwcp wXaa-fj-an. Clem. Alex. Strom, lib. iii. p. 477-
2 Frena Pelethronii Lapithae gyrosque dedere
Impositi dorso, atque equitem docuere sub armis
Insultare solo, et gressus glomerare superbos.
Virgil. Geor. lib. iii. v. 115.
Justin says, that Philip II. of Macedon wished to make himself master of Thessaly
for no other reason than that he might add the Thessalian horsemen to his army: Hinc
Thessaliani, non prcedw cupiditate, sed quod eccercitui suo robur Thessalorum equitum
adjungere gestiebat, nihil minus quam bellicm rnetuentem, improvisus expugnat. Justin,
lib. vii. c. 6'.
3 Primus ab asquorea percussis cuspide saxis
Thessalicus sonipes, bellis feralibus omen,
Exsiluit: primus chalybem, frenosque momordit,
Spumavitque novis Lapithag domitoris habenis.
Lucan. lib. yi. v 396.
* 'Jfclovog /3a<riAEa>j ovrog Qscro-aXlag, h rcu FIijA/a) opei an^ypw^ ravpwv aye\r\, xa) t« Aoma tcuv
ipuiV cipciTci hnolst. Elf yap ra olxovpsva xanovreg ol Tuupoi, ecrivov to. levlpa, xa) rovg xapnohg,
xa\ ra \mo\\(iy\a crvvdiecpSeipav. 'Exypvfcev ovv 6 '1%'icuv, cog, Si Tig dveXoi rovg ravpoug, tqvtco dcocreiv
■^ptjj^ura TTapwoXXa. Neayi'craof U rmg ex Ttjg mcupelag, ex xco^g nvbg xaXov^ev^g Ns<pEA>!J,