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hippocentaurus

hippocentaurus · m

a fabulous creature

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Where it lives

de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

hippŏcentaurus — Lewis & Short

hippŏcentaurus, i, m., = i(ppoke/vtaupos,

I a fabulous creature, half horse and half man, hippocentaur, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5; id. Tusc. 1, 37, 90; Plin. 7, 3, 3, § 35: si quis rem quae in rerum natura non est aut esse non potest, velut hippocentaurum stipuletur, Gai. Inst. 3, 97 a.

In the wild

hippocentaurum Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.5
Hippocentaurum Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.90
Hippocentaurus Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p263
Hippocentaurum Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p120
hippocentauro Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.105
hippocentaurum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.3.p2

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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