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Centaurus

Centaurus · m

a Centaur; the Centaurs were wild people in the mountains of Thessaly

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Where it lives

Achilleis 4 · 5.55/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
De Rerum Natura 5 · 1.03/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
de Natura Deorum 3 · 0.84/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Centaurus — Lewis & Short

Centaurus, i, m., = *ke/ntauros,

I a Centaur; the Centaurs were wild people in the mountains of Thessaly, who fought on horseback; acc. to the fable, monsters in Thessaly of a double form (the upper parts human, the lower those of a horse), sons of Ixion and of a cloud in the form of Juno (hence nubigenae, Verg. A. 7, 674), Lucr. 5, 876; 5, 889; Ov. M. 9, 191; 12, 219 sq.; Verg. G. 2, 456; id. A. 7, 675; Hor. C. 4, 2, 15 al.; Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. 1, 13 (21): nobilis, i. e. Chiron, Hor. Epod. 13, 11; cf. bimembris, v. Lapithae.—As figure-head of a ship, Verg. A. 10, 195.—

II A constellation in the southern heavens, Hyg. Astr. 2, 38; 3, 37; Cic. Arat. 203 sq.; Manil. 1, 408.—

III The name of a ship (hence, sc. navis, fem.): magna, Verg. A. 5, 122.

Where it came from

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