The woodland scene, enlivened by a few hilarious centaurs pursuing nymphs, is tremendously sure in handling and very gorgeous in the many golden browns and greens which control the colour scheme.
In the vase-paintings Eurystheus takes refuge in a pithos from Herakles when he brings the Erymanthian boar,[513] and the same shape of vase is represented as holding the wine of the Centaurs and the water drawn by the Danaids.
Herakles rescuing Deianeira from Nessos, on the exterior a battle of Centaurs and Lapiths.
Combats of Greeks with Amazons andCentaurs on later R.
Combats of Greeks with Centaurs and Amazons are favourite subjects, but often little more than decorative.
He was Nessus, one of the centaurswhom he had chased up the mountain the time when he went to hunt the Erymanthean boar.
One of them, Pholus, took Heracles to the great house where the centaurs had their wine stored.
Now on this mountain a band of centaurs lived, and they, knowing him since the time he had been fostered by Chiron, welcomed Heracles.
The centaurs knew him, and Nessus spoke to Heracles as if he had friendship for him.
Up the mountain and away to far rivers the centaurs raced, pursued by Heracles with his bow.
Then the centaurs that were without smelt the wine and came hammering at the door, demanding the drafts that would make them wild.
Seldom did the centaurs drink wine; a draft of it made them wild, and so they stored it away, leaving it in the charge of one of their band.
The first represented the equestrian contest of Pelops against Oenomaus, and in the second the Lapithæ were represented fighting with the centaurs at the marriage of Pirithous.
Contests with the Amazons and battles with the centaurs form the subject of the whole.
He also had invited the Centaurs to the banquet; and as they in their drunken insolence laid hands upon the women, the Lapithae attacked them.
The rattle and clatter continue through the greater part of three days, with more or less of bell-jingling and whip-cracking, and more or less plunging of centaurs and bare-backed horses.
Illustration: Capital with Centaurs or Sagittaries] Montivilliers itself is a neat little town, beautifully situated in a valley, with a stream of clear water running through it.
The other capital which I send to you is ornamented with groups of Centaursor Sagittaries.
And from Tibur came two youths of Argos, twin brothers, Catillus and Coras, swift and strong as two Centaurs from the hills.
No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find, My subject is of man and human kind.
Further, one authority points out that we think more frequently of centaurs than of human beings with serpentine bodies, not becausecentaurs are more sthetic but because horses are more massive than serpents.
The design on the comb represents combats between Centaurs and Tritons for the possession of nymphs; on the sides, a combat between Romans and Carthaginians.
The ground is divided into four ovals, on which are displayed scenes representing the Rapes of the Sabines, of Deianiera, and of Helen, and the Contest between the Centaurs and Lapithae.
The age of chivalry has its legend in the Centaurs and Cheiron.
The Hippo-centaurs are mounted savages: Cheiron is the true knight, withstanding monsters in his own shape, saving Peleus from them, and giving hospitality to the Argonauts.
The rattle and clatter continue through the greater part of three days, with more or less of bell-jingling and whip-cracking, and more or less plunging of Centaurs and bare-backed horses.
Some scholars identify the centaurs with the Gandharvas.
Kimpurushas, demigods attached also to the service of Kuvera, celestial musicians, represented like centaurs reversed with human figures and horses’ heads.
A race of semi-divine musicians attached to the service of Kuvera, represented as centaurs reversed with human figures and horses’ heads.
A race of beings of human shape but with the heads of horses, like centaurs reversed.
Kinnars are centaurs reversed, beings with equine head and human bodies.
Kuhn has shown their identity with the Centaurs in name, origin and attributes.
Prentice Mulford firmly believed that the supposed fables in the ancient mythologies concerning beings half-men, half-beasts (such as centaurs or mermaids) had had their origin in spiritual truths.
The Centaurs having come to a state of intoxication, offered violence to the women present, an insult for which they received due punishment.
The Centaurswere mythical creatures which inhabited Thessaly.
The famous battle of the Centaurs with the Lapithae was occasioned by a quarrel at the marriage of Hippodamia with Pirithous.
But the Centaurs of the Parthenon and the Amazons of the Mausoleum are immortally independent of all changes of opinion.
There stormed the wild rout of the Centaurs round The hall of Pholus: goaded on by Strife And wine, with Hercules the monsters fought.
This is why St. Jerome saw in the Desert Centaurs that confessed Jesus Christ; secondly, that God had communicated to the Pagans certain glimmerings of light, to the end they might be saved.
Meanwhile the news had spread among the Centaurs that Hercules was among them, and making free with the public wine.
When they invited the centaurs to the marriage feast of Pirithoüs, who was one of them, a quarrel and bloodshed arose.
And who are these who next come into view in various forms of men and animals and other monsters appearing--lions and centaurs and satyrs--who are these?
And now enough of centaursand satyrs: the play is ended, and they may quit the political stage.
A band of galloping centaurs closed in around the mail wagon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centaurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
