Lapith

• “Lucian brings in Aetamacles, a philosopher in his Lapith. convivio, much discontented that he was not invited amongst the rest, expostulating the matter, in a long epistle, with Aristenetus their host.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Bacchiadai wished to marry her, was taken to wife by Aëtion the son of Echecrates, who was of the deme of Petra, but by original descent a Lapith and of the race of Caineus.”

  The History of Herodotus

• “She liked the great Thessalian horses, which she had only known by hearsay, and was soon as bold on them as a Lapith boy; but up in the high hills we used the little Kentaur ponies with eyes in their feet, such as she had known at home.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “I thought of his Lapith band, and wondered what folk were like who seemed wild to these.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “It is a Lapith custom for the bride to make a progress with her train among the guests, who throw flowers and blessings, before the men's dancing that ends with carrying her away.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “But the Lapith kings have married often into Hellene houses; they know the right names of the gods, and the famous battle-lays, and the rules of war.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “That is an up-country name for the Moon Mistress; there was a good deal of Lapith in him, as well as Hellene.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “Half a month we stayed where the forest thins and the high woods are open, in a Lapith house of logs with a painted doorway.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “His was Lapith work, and very good, not what you would expect from looking at Lapiths; the hilt was covered with fine gold grains, and the blade had running horses done in silver.”

  The Bull From The Sea

• “Pirithoos had found himself just the right girl: some great lord's daughter, and a Lapith of the Lapiths, one who like her mother before her would put up with a roving man.”

  The Bull From The Sea

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