hippanthropes

Updated: May 23, 2025

Something parallel to this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, invulnerable, sublime gods and beasts. Odd numerical coincidence, twenty-six battalions rode to meet twenty-six battalions.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables