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hippotaur
UK /ˈhɪpə.tɔː/ US /ˈhɪpə.tɔɹ/
noun 2
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1PREP.
into, with
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noun
1
A creature that is half bull and half horse.
Cnemon is surprised even by the shadow of a crocodile, while Nausicles smiles at a foolish bird-catcher sent to catch the phoenicopter; or the giraffe terrifies the Ethiopians at a point in the plot when surprise is least expected - before Theagenes improvises a hippotaur to deal with it. This is again the world of Herodotus-at-the-Zoo.
Theagenes was extolled to the skies for having welded the novel team into a hippotaur.
noun
1
A taur with the lower body of a hippopotamus.
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Cnemon is surprised even by the shadow of a crocodile, while Nausicles smiles at a foolish bird-catcher sent to catch the phoenicopter; or the giraffe terrifies the Ethiopians at a point in the plot w
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Theagenes was extolled to the skies for having welded the novel team into a hippotaur.
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Hence, we have a Thessalian doing battle not with a man-horse (centaur) but with a bull-horse (hippotaur), and although the analogy has its weaknesses, it is certainly suggestive of the earlier fight.
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