A huge centaur who stripped and killed the Emathian Halesus, then mocked Caeneus until the Lapith drove him back in the wedding battle.1
I
After Caeneus had slain five centaurs, Latreus — huge of limb, grey-templed but still in the vigor of youth — came rushing out in the armor stripped from Halesus of Emathia. He mocked Caeneus, once a woman, and the fight between them raged until the centaur brood at last buried the invulnerable Lapith under massy pines.2
II
Homer names a different Latreus among the Phaeacian youths in the Odyssey — not this Thessalian centaur of Ovid's wedding war.3
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