. h wasprobably simpler, and started with those whofirst beheld an equestrian tribe from the Northsettling in Thessaly at a time when horses werenot ridden in Greece, and imagined the horseand its rider to be one being. The name bull - spearers or bull - goaders (kevreiv :ravpos) suggests either the hunting of bulls bymounted Thessalians (Schol. ad Pind. ), orthe driving of bulls by mounted 1 cowboys(Serv. ad Georg. iii. 115). But whatever theorigin of the myth, the Centaurs, like theSatyrs, represented unbridled animal passions,
. h wasprobably simpler, and started with those whofirst beheld an equestrian tribe from the Northsettling in Thessaly at a time when horses werenot ridden in Greece, and imagined the horseand its rider to be one being. The name bull - spearers or bull - goaders (kevreiv :ravpos) suggests either the hunting of bulls bymounted Thessalians (Schol. ad Pind. ), orthe driving of bulls by mounted 1 cowboys(Serv. ad Georg. iii. 115). But whatever theorigin of the myth, the Centaurs, like theSatyrs, represented unbridled animal passions,and the combats with Centaurs recorded thestrife between civilisation and alone among them has been made aninstance of learning and culture. In art of anarchaic type they are represented with the forepart, including the legs, human, having the hindquarters of a horse attached : the more familiartype, from the sculptures of the Parthenononwards, showed tbem as men from the head tothe loins, while in the rest of the body, the four CEPHALUS 215. Centaur. (Metope from the Parthenon.) legs, and the tail, they are horses. The femaleCentaur is described by Lucian, Zeuxia, 8 ( Met. xii. 898), and appears in a Florentinecameo suckling an infant Centaur. Centrites i Kfvrpirrjs: Bohtan-tschai), a smallriver of Armenia, which it divided from the landof the Carduchi, N. of Assyria. It rises in themountains S. of the Arsissa Palus (L. Van),and flows into the Tigris. (Xen. Anab. iv. 8.) Centumalus. Fulvius. 1. Cn., legate of thedictator M. Valerius Corvus 801; consul298, when he gained a victory over the Sam-nites ; and propraetor 2!)5, when he defeated theEtruscans (Liv. x. 26).—2, Cn., consul 229, de-feated the Illyrians subject to the queen Teuta(Polyb. ii. 5).—3. Cn., eurule oedile 214 ; praetor213, with Suessula as his province ; and consul211; in the next year he was defeated byHannibal near Herdonia in Apulin, and waskilled in the battle (Liv. xxiv. 48,
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