Scull, Sarah Amelia · Philadelphia : Porter & Coates · leaf 337
Silenus. CENTAURS. 335 the cases of the other Satyrs. The finest type is thatof Silenus holding the infant Dionysus (Villa Borghese). CENTAURS. The home of the Centaurs was in Thessaly, near If Mount Pelion. The original inhabitants of this region were savage people, one of whose customs was hunting … Centaur (metope from the Parthenon). the bull on horseback; and it is possible that otherpeoples may have supposed the man and horse butparts of the same animal, as our native Indians thoughtof the Spaniards and their horses. Some writers applythe term Centaur only to the primitive Thessalians,and…
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