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.; hesiod. scut. herc. , &c.) now, in these earliest accounts, the centaurs appear merely as a sort of gigantic, savage, or animal-like beings; whereas, in later writers, they are described as monsters (hippocentaurs), whose bodies were partly human and partly those of horses. this strange mixture of
manhood they consorted with mares and brought into being the hippokentauroi (hippocentaurs), as they are called, which are creatures of double form; but others say that it was the kentauroi born of ixion and nephele who were called hippokentauroi, because they were the first to essay the riding of horses...
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