Kentaurikov" , hv, ovn , like a Centaur, i.e. savage, brutal: Adv. -kw`" , Ar.
Kentauromaciva
Kentauro-ma±civa , hJ , ( mavch ) a battle of Centaurs, Plut.
Kentauroplhqhv"
Kentauro-plhqhv" , ev" , full of Centaurs, Eur.
Kevntauro"
Kevntauro" , oJ , ( kentevw ) a Centaur: the Centaurs were a savage Thessalian race, between Pelion and Ossa, extirpated in a war with their neighbours the Lapithae, Hom.
II. in later Poets they are monsters of double shape, half-man and half-horse, Pind ., etc.
kenteuvw
kenteuvw , = kentevw 3, Hdt.
KENTE vW , f. hvsw : aor. I ejkevnthsa , Ep. inf. kevnsai (as if from kevntw ):— to prick, goad, spur on, Il., Ar.
2.
of bees and wasps,
to sting,
Ar
.,
Theocr.
3.
generally,
to prick, stab,
Pind
.,
Soph.
,
etc.
:
to torture,
Xen
.:
metaph.
,
su;n dovlw/ k
.
to stab
in the dark,
Soph.
kentrhnekhv"
kentr-hnekhv" , ev", ( * ejnevgkw ) spurred or goaded on, Il.
kentrivzw
kentrivzw , f. ivsw , = kentevw , to prick, goad or spur on, Xen .; metaph. , e[rw" k . Id.
kentromanhv"
kentro-ma±nhv" , ev" , ( maivnomai ) madly spurring, or spurring to madness, Anth.
kevntron
kevntron , tov , ( kentevw ) any sharp point:
1.
a horsegoad,
Lat.
stimulus
,
Il.,
etc.
: also
an ox-goad,
Plat
.; —proverb.,
pro;" kevntra laktivzein
,
v.
laktivzw
2.
b.
metaph.
a goad, spur, incentive,
Aesch
.,
Eur.
2.
an instrument of torture,
Hdt
.:
—metaph.
in
pl.
tortures, pangs,
Soph.
3.
the sting
of bees and wasps,
Ar.
; of a scorpion,
Dem.
;
metaph.
of the impression produced by Socrates,
w{sper mevlitta to; k. ejgkatalipwvn
Plat.
4. the stationary point of a pair of compasses, the centre of a circle, Id.
kentrotuphv"
kentro-tuØphv" , ev" , ( tuvptw ) struck by the goad, Anth.