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PELETHRONIUM

Volume 14 · 78 words · 1797 Edition

(Nicander and Scholiast); a town of Thessaly, situated in a flowery part of mount Pelios; and hence the appellation throna, signifying "flowers." Pelias, "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 Lapiths and Centaurs the same; others a different people; allowed however to be both of Thessaly. Their story is greatly involved in fable. See Lapithus.