On Unbelievable Tales

in the form of the Centaurs; but the idea of horse and man arose from this event. The Centaurs then received the promised reward from Ixion; but the joy over their deed, as well as the wealth they received, led them to excess and pride. They committed many outrages, even against Ixion, who had his seat at that time in the city of Larissa, as it is now called. At that time, a people called the Lapiths inhabited these regions; and when the Centaurs were invited to a feast by these Lapiths, original: "Dies geschahe bey der Vermählung des Pirithous, eines Prinzen des Ixions, mit der Hippodame." (This happened at the wedding of Pirithous, a prince of Ixion, to Hippodame.) the former got drunk, abducted their wives, threw them onto their horses, and fled with them back to their home from which they had come. Now they began to treat the Lapiths with hostility. They went into their fields at night and hunted them; but at the break of day, they fled back to the mountains with their booty. During this flight, one saw only the hindquarters of the horses and nothing of the men except the head, and it was customary at this unusual spectacle