Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lapith? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
A bearded Lapith plunges the very long head of his thrusting-spear into the breast of a Centaur who defends himself with a rock.
Although the Lapith women do not seek husbands, they are assaulted by the Centaurs at a wedding and are defended by the heroic, athletic Lapiths, overseen by the god Apollo.
Examples from Classical Literature
Yet had not the lapith or Calydon done so great wickedness as hath this nation of Troy.
An attempted restoration of a combat between a lapith and a Centaur is exhibited.
It was but a little to the north of the land of the lapith, whose name, in its latter two-thirds, is I-apod.
In the fight that followed, Theseus joined with the lapith, and many of the Centaurs were slain.
On each side of him is a group of three, a centaur trying to carry off a woman and a lapith striking at him.
The combat of the centaurs and lapith is told at some length, with too many names and too little unity.
God grant they may not prove to be the feasts of the lapith and Centaurs!
The victorious Centaur rears up above the Lapith, and is about to hurl a great stone, or perhaps a hydria, with both hands.
It was as if the Lapith and centaurs had got together by the ears.
