Edward Young
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 302
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Excerpt from The Centaur Not Fabulous: In Six Letters to a Friend; On the Life in Vogue And farther, I call them Centaurs not fabulous because by their scarce half-human conduct, and character, that enigmatical, and purely ideal figure of the Antients, is not unriddled only, but realized. Your Ladyship's curiosity is great; and you, possibly, are willing to know what account antiquity gives of the family, or rather breed, of the Centaurs. It is as follows. Of the Centaurs the most celebrated was Chiron. He was a great Botanist and our bitter herb Centory takes its name from him. He thought all herbs bitter, because, being very amorous, he could not find any amongst them, that could abate the fever in his blood; and he left a complaint in the Greek language to that purpose which Ovid, sick of the same disease, has translated, and transmitted to posterity in his works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.