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Hippocentaur
hippocentaur
also: hippocentaurus, hippocentauri, hippocentaur
A centaur, the mythical half-man, half-horse creature. Cicero notes that one may seem to see a lion or a hippocentaur in the clouds, to show that chance can imitate recognizable shapes.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §1.105 a hippocentaur
A centaur, the mythical man-horse, a stock example of something that exists only in imagination. Cotta asks what difference there is, on Epicurean terms, between picturing a centaur and picturing a god.