CENTAUR

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 5

one of an ancient race of @avage meno we hye the hills of The aly, who, according Greek fable, were the ofispring of Ixion anda cloud. In ancient works of art the centaurs are represented 2s men from head to loins, with the remaining part of the body like that of a horse. This scems to have arisen from the fact that the The alians were celebrated horsemen. [s. 95]