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Κένταυρος , ὁ (in Luc.Zeux.4 also ἡ), Centaur:
I. in Ep., a savage race, dwelling between Pelion and Ossa, Il.11.832, Od.21.295 sq. (opp. ἄνδρες, ib.303), Hes.Sc.184, h.Merc.224 (perh. in signf. 11), Batr.171: hence, brigands, Hsch.
II. later, monsters of double shape, half-man and half-horse, Pi.P.2.44, etc., cf. Arist. Insomn.461b20, D.S.4.69: prov., οὐ παρὰ Κενταύροισι 'we don't live in fairyland', Telecl.45.
III. the constellation Centaurus, Eudox. ap.Hipparch.1.2.20.
IV. = παιδεραστής, from the brutal sensuality ascribed to the Centaurs, Hsch.
2. the pudenda, Theopomp.Com.89.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 184
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.832
    • Homer, Odyssey, 21.295
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 11
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 224
    • Lucian, Zeuxis, 4
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 4.69
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