Κένταυρος
kentauros
brigands
Appears 3 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
Κένταυρος, ὁ (in Zeux. 4 also ἡ), Centaur:
‹ All lexicon entries I. in Ep., a savage race, dwelling between Pelion and Ossa, Il. 11.832, Od. 21.295 sq. (opp. ἄνδρες, ib. 303), Sc. 184, h.Merc. 224 (perh. in signf. II), 171: hence, brigands,
II. later, monsters of double shape, half-man and half-horse, P. 2.44, etc., cf. Insomn. 461b20, 4.69: prov., οὐ παρὰ Κενταύροισι ‘we donʼt live in fairyland’, 45.
III. the constellation Centaurus, ap. 1.2.20.
IV. = παιδεραστής, from the brutal sensuality ascribed to the Centaurs,
2. the pudenda, 89.