PELETHRONIUM (Nicander and Scholiast); a town of Thessaly, situated in a flowery part of mount Pelios; and hence the appellation throna, signifying
"flowers." Lucan says the Centaurs were natives of that place; to whom Virgil assigns mount Othrys. Most authors, however, ascribe the breaking of horses to the Centaurs. Some make the Lapithæ and Centaurs the same; others a different people; allowed however to be both of Thessaly. Their story is greatly involved in fable. See LAPITHUS.