ου (ὁ, ἡ) :
      1 οἱ Κ. les Centaures, pple de Thessalie, IL. 11, 832 ; OD. 21, 295 ; DS. 4, 70, etc. ;
      2 postér. centaure, monstre moitié homme, moitié cheval, PD. P. 2, 82 ;
      3 parties honteuses, THPP. fr. 76.

➳ ἡ Κ. LUC. Zeux. 4.

s. LGPN

ὁ (in Luc. Zeux. 4 also ἡ), Centaur; in Ep., a savage race, dwelling between Pelion and Ossa, Il. 11.832, Od. 21.295 sq. (opp. ἄνδρες, ib. 303), Hes. Sc. 184, h.Merc. 224 (perh. in signf. II), Batr. 171; hence, brigands, Hsch. later, monsters of double shape, half-man and half-horse, Pi. P. 2.44, etc., cf. Arist. Insomn. 461b20, D.S. 4.69; prov., οὐ παρὰ Κενταύροισι ΄we don΄t live in fairyland΄, Telecl. 45. the constellation Centaurus, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.20. = παιδεραστής, from the brutal sensuality ascribed to the Centaurs, Hsch.
the pudenda, Theopomp.Com. 89.

ὁ, Kentaur. Nach Hesych. hießen so auch οἱ παιδερασταί, vgl. Phot.; auch = τὸ γυναικεῖον μόριον, Eust. Od. 21.296 u. Phot. aus Theop. com.