 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1844 - 372 pages
...causes) has been converted by the ancient poets, Homer, Hesiod, Lucretius, and Virgil, into a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent, which was vanquished by the famous Bellerophon and his steed Pegasus. Thus Homer, describing... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1847 - 490 pages
...inhabiting a mountain in Lycia, which was slain by Bcllerophon. It was fabled to have the bead and neck of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, and that it breathed or vomited forth names.* Chiron, a Centaur skilled in medicine, music, and an-hcry.... | |
 | Henry Gough - Devices (Heraldry) - 1847 - 404 pages
...CHIEF POINTS. See POINTS. CHIMERA : an imaginary animal, having the face of a maiden, the mane and legs of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. CHIMERICAL : imaginary : an epithet applied to the fabulous animals of heraldry. CHIPPING-AXE. See... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1847 - 708 pages
...302. CHÏM-ЖВА. I. A fabulous monster, offspring of Typhon and Echidna, having the head and neck of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent, and vomiting fire. vi. 288. vii. 785. — II. The name of a ship. v. 118. 223. CHLÖREDS.... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - Mythology, Classical - 1849 - 516 pages
...formidable, was assigned to Bellerophon as a trial of his valor. It was the fire vomiting Chimoera, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. To this bold adventure the gods lent their assistance, granting Bellerophon the winged horse Pegasos.... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1850 - 346 pages
...causes) has been converted by the ancient poets, Homer, Hesiod, Lucretius, and Virgil, into a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent, which was vanquished by the f.imous Bellerophon and his steed Pegasus. Thus Homer, describing... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 640 pages
...them felt extreme weakness. Condamine ascended, in 1745, to the height of 1 5,81 5 fo-et. CHIMERA ; в fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dnigon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bellerophon. (See Hîpponous.)... | |
 | Edward Falkener - Archaeology - 1851 - 456 pages
...with troops, and directs him to kill the Chimera, a horrible monster, described by Hesiod as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which was possessed of great velocity, which belched forth fire from its mouth, and which had for a long... | |
 | Publius Ovidius Naso - 1851 - 580 pages
...mud from 46 The Chinutra.]— Ver. 339, The Chimsera, according to the poets, was a monster having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. It seems, however, that it was nothing more than a volcanic mountain of Lycia, in Asia Minor, whence... | |
 | Paschal Donaldson - Mythology, Classical - 1854 - 124 pages
...daughters of Phorcus and Cete. " The Chimaera was a monster, which was said to vomit forth fire ; it had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. A volcano in Lyeia occasioned this fable ; for in the top of the mountain were lions ; in the middle,... | |
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CHIMERA; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bellerophon. 
