Combe, Taylor [Hrsg.]: A description of the collection of ancient Marbles in the British Museum: with engravings (Band 4) ([S.l.], 1820)

6

is curious to observe, with what care and devotion they recorded
the particulars of this fiction in their sculptures, paintings, and
other monuments of art.

The Centaurs were invited to the nuptials of Pirithous, king of
the Lapithae. During the marriage feast, one of the Centaurs, named
Eurytion, or Eurytus, with the characteristic brutality of his na-
ture, and elated by the effects of wine, offered violence to the person
of Hippodamia, the bride. (7) This outrageous act was immediately
resented by Theseus, the friend of Pirithous, who hurled a large
vessel of wine at the head of the offender, which brought him life-
less to the ground. (8) A general engagement then ensued between

Is plane perspiciet, inter Hippocentaurum, qui numquam fuerit, et regem Agamcmno-
nem, nihil interesse. Cic. Tusc. Quasst. lib. i. 37.

Tii/ej de Xeyovo't Toil; ex vetpsXrj; xa) '1%'iovos yevvrj^evTasKeVTaupovg^pwTOv; InTreueiv STTi^sipr^avTag,
iTTTTOxswaupov; iovop.xa-Ha.1, xai e'tg I1AA2MA MT0OY1 xaTayjjr^ut tag Si^uiij ovrag. Diod.
Sic. lib. iv. c. 70.

7 UeiplQovg /J.h yr\}>*ag 'lin:ala.p.sMV rati ButTTou, xai xaXeo-avrog elg rovg yufiovg tov re Qr}<rla xa.)
robg lievraupoug, <pacr) ft,d)tt<rlleVTU$ eTiSaXeo-Qai rat; xexXr]jj.haig yuvui£i xa) §la plo-yeo-Qaf Si« le
rrjv TTupavopiav t6v ts Gyrea. xai robg AawlSac Ttapo^uvienag, oux oXlyovg fxev uvsXelv, tov; 8e
Xomavg 'exfiaXfiv ex rrj; noXscug. Diod. Sic. lib. iv. C. 'JO.

Nam tibi, saevorum sasvissime Centaurorum
Euryte, quam vino pectus, tain virgine visa
Ardet: et ebrietas geminata libidine regnat.
Protinus eversas tuvbant convivia mensas :
Raptaturque comis per vim nova nupta prehensis.
Eurytus Hippodamen, alii, quam quisque probarant,
Aut poterant, rapiunt: captasque erat urbis imago.

Ovid. Met. lib. xii. v. 218.

8 Forte fuit juxta signis astantibus asper
Antiquus crater, quern vastum vastior ipse
Sustulit iEgides, adversaque misit in era.
Sanguinis ille globos pariter, cerebrumque merumque,
Vulnere et ore vomens, madida resupinus arena,
Calcitrat. Ardescunt germana coade bimembres:
Certatimque omnes uno ore, Anna, anna, loquuntur.
Vina dabant animos : et prima pocula pugna
Missa volant, fragilesque cadi, curvique lebetes,
Res epulis quondam, nunc bello et caxlibus, aptas.

Ovid. Met. lib. xii. v. 235