Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Hippocentaurus

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Hippocentaurus

（ἱπποκένταυρος). A horse-centaur, half-horse and half-man (Cic. N. D. ii. 2), as opposed to the fish-centaur, half-man and half-fish (ἰχθυοκένταυρος), under which form the giants who waged war against the gods, were represented (Apollod. i.6.1). See Centaurus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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