Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

^21.295 οἶνος καὶ Κένταυρον, ἀγακλυτὸν Εὐρυτίωνα, ^21.300 ἕλκον ἀναΐξαντες, ἀπʼ οὔατα νηλέϊ χαλκῷ, ἄασʼ ἐνὶ μεγάρῳ μεγαθύμου Πειριθόοιο, ἐς Λαπίθας ἐλθόνθʼ· ὁ δʼ ἐπεὶ φρένας ἄασεν οἴνῳ, μαινόμενος κάκʼ ἔρεξε δόμον κάτα Πειριθόοιο·, ἥρωας δʼ ἄχος εἷλε, διὲκ προθύρου δὲ θύραζε, ῥῖνάς τʼ ἀμήσαντες· ὁ δὲ φρεσὶν ᾗσιν ἀασθεὶς, ἤϊεν ἣν ἄτην ὀχέων ἀεσίφρονι θυμῷ. ἐξ οὗ Κενταύροισι καὶ ἀνδράσι νεῖκος ἐτύχθη, οἷ δʼ αὐτῷ πρώτῳ κακὸν εὕρετο οἰνοβαρείων.

" ^21.295 Wine impaired even the Centaur, very famous Eurytion, in great-hearted Peirithous hall, when he went to the Lapithae. After he impaired his mind with wine, he did evil things in madness throughout Peirithous home. Grief seized the heroes, and they leapt up and dragged him", ^21.300 outside, through and out the doorway, and hacked off his ears and nose with ruthless bronze. Impaired in his mind, he went bearing his delusion with a witless heart. The feud of men and Centaurs happened from his time, but he found evil for himself first, heavy with wine.

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^2.5 For what can possibly be more evident than this? And if it were not a truth universally impressed on the minds of men, the belief in it would never have been so firm; nor would it have been, as it is, increased by length of years, nor would it have gathered strength and stability through every age. And, in truth, we see that other opinions, being false and groundless, have already fallen into oblivion by lapse of time. Who now believes in Hippocentaurs and Chimaeras? Or what old woman is now to be found so weak and ignorant as to stand in fear of those infernal monsters which once so terrified mankind? For time destroys the fictions of error and opinion, while it confirms the determinations of nature and of truth.

^5.878 Sed neque Centauri fuerunt nec tempore in ullo, tum flammam taetro spirantis ore Chimaeras, pascere naturam per terras omniparentis. Sed ne forte putes ea demum sola vagari, quae cumque ab rebus rerum simulacra recedunt, sunt etiam quae sponte sua gignuntur et ipsa, constituuntur in hoc caelo, qui dicitur aer, quae multis formata modis sublime feruntur, Centauros itaque et Scyllarum membra videmus, Cerbereasque canum facies simulacraque eorum, quorum morte obita tellus amplectitur ossa; omnigenus quoniam passim simulacra feruntur, partim sponte sua quae fiunt aere aëre in ipso, partim quae variis ab rebus cumque recedunt, et quae confiunt ex horum facta figuris. nam certe ex vivo Centauri non fit imago, nulla fuit quoniam talis natura animata; verum ubi equi atque hominis casu convenit imago, haerescit facile extemplo, quod diximus ante, propter subtilem naturam et tenvia texta. cetera de genere hoc eadem ratione creantur. quae cum mobiliter summa levitate feruntur, ut prius ostendi, facile uno commovet ictu, quae libet una animum nobis subtilis imago; tenvis enim mens est et mire mobilis ipsa. esse queunt duplici natura et corpore bino, ex alienigenis membris compacta, potestas, hinc illinc partis ut sat par esse potissit. id licet hinc quamvis hebeti cognoscere corde. principio circum tribus actis impiger annis, floret equus, puer haut quaquam; nam saepe etiam nunc, ubera mammarum in somnis lactantia quaeret. post ubi equum validae vires aetate senecta, membraque deficiunt fugienti languida vita, tum demum puerili aevo florenta iuventas, officit et molli vestit lanugine malas; flamma quidem vero cum corpora fulva leonum, tam soleat torrere atque urere quam genus omne, visceris in terris quod cumque et sanguinis extet, qui fieri potuit, triplici cum corpore ut una, prima leo, postrema draco, media ipsa, Chimaera, ore foras acrem flaret de corpore flammam? tempore quo primum tellus animalia fudit, propterea quia quae de terris nunc quoque abundant, herbarum genera ac fruges arbustaque laeta, non tamen inter se possunt complexa creari, sed res quaeque suo ritu procedit et omnes, foedere naturae certo discrimina servant. et manuum mira freti virtute pedumque

" ^5.878 But Centaurs neer have been, nor can there be Creatures of twofold stock and double frame, Compact of members alien in kind, Yet formed with equal function, equal force In every bodily part- a fact thou mayst, However dull thy wits, well learn from this: The horse, when his three years have rolled away, Flowers in his prime of vigour; but the boy Not so, for oft even then he gropes in sleep After the milky nipples of the breasts, An infant still. And later, when at last The lusty powers of horses and stout limbs, Now weak through lapsing life, do fail with age, Lo, only then doth youth with flowering years Begin for boys, and clothe their ruddy cheeks With the soft down. So never deem, percase, That from a man and from the seed of horse, The beast of draft, can Centaurs be composed Or eer exist alive, nor Scyllas be- The half-fish bodies girdled with mad dogs- Nor others of this sort, in whom we mark Members discordant each with each; for neer At one same time they reach their flower of age Or gain and lose full vigour of their frame, And never burn with one same lust of love, And never in their habits they agree, Nor find the same foods equally delightsome- Sooth, as one oft may see the bearded goatsBatten upon the hemlock which to man Is violent poison. Once again, since flame Is wont to scorch and burn the tawny bulks of the great lions as much as other kinds of flesh and blood existing in the lands, How could it be that she, Chimaera lone, With triple body - fore, a lion she; And aft, a dragon; and betwixt, a goat- Might at the mouth from out the body belch Infuriate flame? Wherefore, the man who feigns Such beings could have been engendered When earth was new and the young sky was fresh (Basing his empty argument on new) May babble with like reason many whims Into our ears: hell say, perhaps, that then Rivers of gold through every landscape flowed, That trees were wont with precious stones to flower, Or that in those far aeons man was born With such gigantic length and lift of limbs As to be able, based upon his feet, Deep oceans to bestride or with his hands To whirl the firmament around his head. For though in earth were many seeds of things In the old time when this telluric world First poured the breeds of animals abroad, Still that is nothing of a sign that then Such hybrid creatures could have been begot And limbs of all beasts heterogeneous Have been together knit; because, indeed, The divers kinds of grasses and the grains And the delightsome trees- which even now Spring up abounding from within the earth- Can still neer be begotten with their stems Begrafted into one; but each sole thing Proceeds according to its proper wont And all conserve their own distinctions based In natures fixed decree.",

^12.459 Quinque neci Caeneus dederat, Styphelumque Bromumque, ^12.460 Antimachumque Elymumque securiferumque Pyraechmen: ^12.461 vulnera non memini, numerum nomenque notavi. ^12.462 Provolat Emathii spoliis armatus Alesi, ^12.463 quem dederat leto, membris et corpore Latreus, ^12.465 vis iuvenalis erat, variabant tempora cani. ^12.466 Qui clipeo gladioque Macedoniaque sarisa, ^12.467 conspicuus faciemque obversus in agmen utrumque, ^12.468 armaque concussit certumque equitavit in orbem, ^12.469 verbaque tot fudit vacuas animosus in auras: ^12.470 “Et te, Caeni, feram? Nam tu mihi femina semper, ^12.471 tu mihi Caenis eris. Nec te natalis origo, ^12.472 commonuit, mentemque subit, quo praemia facto, ^12.473 quaque viri falsam speciem mercede parasti? ^12.474 Quid sis nata, vide, vel quid sis passa, columque, ^12.475 i, cape cum calathis et stamina pollice torque: ^12.476 bella relinque viris.” Iactanti talia Caeneus, ^12.477 extentum cursu missa latus eruit hasta, ^12.478 qua vir equo commissus erat. Furit ille dolore, ^12.479 nudaque Phyllei iuvenis ferit ora sarisa. ^12.481 aut siquis parvo feriat cava tympana saxo. ^12.482 Comminus adgreditur laterique recondere duro, ^12.483 luctatur gladium: gladio loca pervia non sunt. ^12.484 “Haud tamen effugies! medio iugulaberis ense, ^12.485 quandoquidem mucro est hebes” inquit et in latus ensem, ^12.486 obliquat longaque amplectitur ilia dextra. ^12.487 Plaga facit gemitus in corpore marmoris icti, ^12.489 Ut satis inlaesos miranti praebuit artus, ^12.490 “nunc age,” ait Caeneus, “nostro tua corpora ferro, ^12.491 temptemus!” capuloque tenus demisit in armos, ^12.492 ensem fatiferum caecumque in viscera movit, ^12.493 versavitque manu vulnusque in vulnere fecit. ^12.494 Ecce ruunt vasto rabidi clamore bimembres, ^12.495 telaque in hunc omnes unum mittuntque feruntque. ^12.496 Tela retusa cadunt: manet inperfossus ab omni, ^12.497 inque cruentatus Caeneus Elateius ictu. ^12.499 Monychus exclamat, “populus superamur ab uno, ^12.500 vixque viro: quamquam ille vir est, nos segnibus actis, ^12.501 quod fuit ille, sumus! Quid membra inmania prosunt? ^12.502 Quid geminae vires et quod fortissima rerum, ^12.503 in nobis duplex natura animalia iunxit? ^12.504 Nec nos matre dea, nec nos Ixione natos, ^12.505 esse reor, qui tantus erat, Iunonis ut altae, ^12.506 spem caperet: nos semimari superamur ab hoste! ^12.507 Saxa trabesque super totosque involvite montes, ^12.508 vivacemque animam missis elidite silvis! ^12.509 silva premat fauces, et erit pro vulnere pondus.”, ^12.510 Dixit et insanis deiectam viribus austri, ^12.511 forte trabem nactus validum coniecit in hostem, ^12.512 exemplumque fuit, parvoque in tempore nudus, ^12.513 arboris Othrys erat, nec habebat Pelion umbras. ^12.514 Obrutus inmani tumulo sub pondere Caeneus, ^12.515 aestuat arboreo congestaque robora duris, ^12.516 fert umeris. Sed enim postquam super ora caputque, ^12.518 deficit interdum, modo se super aera frustra, ^12.519 tollere conatur iactasque evolvere silvas, ^12.520 interdumque movet, veluti, quam cernimus, ecce, ^12.521 ardua si terrae quatiatur motibus Ide. ^12.522 Exitus in dubio est: alii sub iia corpus, ^12.523 Tartara detrusum silvarum mole ferebant; ^12.524 abnuit Ampycides medioque ex aggere fulvis, ^12.525 vidit avem pennis liquidas exire sub auras, ^12.526 quae mihi tum primum, tunc est conspecta supremum. ^12.527 Hanc ubi lustrantem leni sua castra volatu, ^12.528 Mopsus et ingenti circum clangore sotem, ^12.529 adspexit pariterque animis oculisque secutus, ^12.530 “o salve” dixit, “Lapithaeae gloria gentis, ^12.532 Credita res auctore suo est: dolor addidit iram, maximus: huic aetas inter iuvenemque senemque, Non secus haec resilit, quam tecti a culmine grando, fractaque dissiluit percusso lammina callo. Fecerat attonitos nova res. “Heu dedecus ingens!”, crevit onus neque habet, quas ducat, spiritus auras, maxime vir quondam, sed nunc avis unica, Caeneu!”

^12.459 of Dryas pierced, as they confronted him. ^12.460 Crenaeus there received a wound in front. ^12.461 Although he turned in flight, as he looked back, ^12.462 a heavy javelin between his eye, ^12.463 pierced through him, where his nose and forehead joined. ^12.465 in endless slumber from the wine he drank, ^12.466 incessant, and his nerveless hand still held, ^12.467 the cup of mixed wine, as he lay full stretched, ^12.468 upon a shaggy bear-skin from Mount Ossa. ^12.469 When Phorbas saw him, harmless in that sleep, " ^12.470 he laid his fingers in his javelins thong,", ^12.471 and shouted loudly, ‘Mix your wine, down there, ^12.472 with waters of the Styx !’ And stopping talk, ^12.473 let fly his javelin at the sleeping youth—, ^12.474 the ashen shaft, iron-tipped, was driven through, ^12.475 his neck, exposed, as he by chance lay there—, ^12.476 his head thrown back. He did not even feel, ^12.477 a touch of death—and from his deep-pierced throat, ^12.478 his crimson blood flowed out upon the couch, ^12.479 and in the wine-bowl still grasped in his hand. ^12.481 up from the earth, an acorn-bearing oak. ^12.482 And, while he struggled with it, back and forth, ^12.483 and was just ready to wrench up the trunk, ^12.484 Pirithous hurled a well aimed spear at him, ^12.485 transfixed his ribs, and pinned his body tight, ^12.486 writhing, to that hard oak: and Lycus fell, ^12.487 and Chromis fell, before Pirithous. ^12.489 than Helops or than Dictys. Helops wa, ^12.490 killed by a javelin, which pierced his temple, ^12.491 from the right side, clear through to his left ear. ^12.492 And Dictys, running in a desperate haste, " ^12.493 hoping in vain, to escape Ixions son,", ^12.494 lipped on the steep edge of a precipice; ^12.495 and, as he fell down headlong crashed into, ^12.496 the top of a huge ash-tree, which impaled, ^12.497 his dying body on its broken spikes. ^12.499 to lift a rock from that steep mountain side; ^12.500 but as he heaved, the son of Aegeus struck, ^12.501 him squarely with an oaken club; and smashed, " ^12.502 and broke the huge bones of that centaurs arm.", ^12.503 He has no time, and does not want to give, ^12.504 that useless foe to death. He leaps upon, ^12.505 the back of tall Bienor, never trained, ^12.506 to carry riders, and he fixed his knee, " ^12.507 firm in the centaurs ribs, and holding tight", ^12.508 to the long hair, seized by his left hand, struck, ^12.509 and shattered the hard features and fierce face, ^12.510 and bony temples with his club of gnarled, ^12.511 trong oak. And with it, he struck to the ground, ^12.512 Nedymnus and Lycopes, dart expert, ^12.513 and Hippasus, whose beard hid all his breast. ^12.514 And Rhipheus taller than the highest tree, ^12.515 and Thereus, who would carry home alive, ^12.516 the raging bears, caught in Thessalian hills. ^12.518 on Theseus and his unrestrained success. ^12.519 He struggled with vast effort to tear up, ^12.520 an old pine, trunk and all, with its long roots, ^12.521 and, failing shortly in that first attempt, ^12.522 he broke it off and hurled it at his foe. ^12.523 But Theseus saw the pine tree in its flight, ^12.524 and, warned by Pallas , got beyond its range—, ^12.525 his boast was, Pallas had directed him! ^12.526 And yet, the missle was not launched in vain. ^12.527 It sheared the left shoulder and the breast, ^12.528 from tall Crantor. He, Achilles, wa, " ^12.529 your fathers armor bearer and was given", ^12.530 by King Amyntor, when he sued for peace. ^12.532 and mangled, he exclaimed, ‘At least receive,

^2.455 Bacchus et ad culpam causas dedit; ille furentis, ^3.3 Cetera, quae vacuas tenuissent carmine mentes, ^3.4 omnia iam volgata: quis aut Eurysthea durum, ^3.258 Quid iuvenis, magnum cui versat in ossibus ignem

^2.455 From story up to story.
^3.3 You, woods and waves Lycaean. All themes beside, ^3.4 Which else had charmed the vacant mind with song,
^3.258 Whether on steed or steer thy choice be set.

" ^7.20 Varro in his account of cases of remarkable strength records that one Tritanus, famous in the gladiatorial exercise with the Samnite equipment, was slightly built but of exceptional strength, and that his son, a soldier of Pompey the Great, had a chequered crisscross of sinews all over his body, even in his arms and hands; and moreover that once he challenged one of the enemy to single combat, defeated him without a weapon in his hand, and finally took hold of him with a single finger and carried him off to the camp. Vinnius Valens served as captain in the Imperial Guard of the late lamented Augustus; he was in the habit of holding carts laden with wine-sacks up in the air until they were emptied, and of catching hold of wagons with one hand and stopping them by throwing his weight against the efforts of the teams drawing them, and doing other marvellous exploits which can be seen carved on his monument. Marcus Varro likewise states: Rusticelius, who was nicknamed Hercules, used to lift his mule; Fufius Salvius used to walk up a ladder with two hundred pound weights fastened to his feet, the same weights in his hands and two two-hundred-pound weights on his shoulders. We also saw a man named Athanatus, who was capable of a miraculous display: he walked across the stage wearing a leaden breast-plate weighing 500 pounds and shod in boots of 500 pounds weight. When the athlete Milo took a firm stand, no one could make him shift his footing, and when he was holding an apple no one could make him straighten out a finger.Phidippidess running the 130 miles from Athens to Sparta in two days was a mighty feat, until the Spartan runner Anystis and Alexander the Greats courier Philonides ran the 148 miles from Sikyon to Elis in a day. At the present day indeed we are aware that some men can last out 128 miles in the circus, and that recently in the consulship of Fonteius and Vipstanus a boy of 8 ran 68 miles between noon and evening. The marvellous nature of this feat will only get across to us in full measure if we reflect that Tiberius Nero completed by carriage the longest twenty-four hours journey on record when hastening to Germany to his brother Drusus who was ill: this measured 182 miles.",
^7.35 The first case of a woman judged by the vote of the matrons to be the most modest was Sulpicia, a daughter of Paterculus and wife of Fulvius Flaccus, who was elected from a previously chosen list of 100 to dedicate the image of Venus in accordance with the Sibylline books; and on a second occasion, by the test of religion, Claudia, when the Mother of the Gods was brought to Rome.

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