A centaur who tried to wrench up an acorn-bearing oak at the wedding battle and was transfixed by Peirithous' spear.1
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Ovid's narrator saw Petraeus striving to tear an oak from the earth, struggling back and forth until he nearly had the trunk — when Peirithous hurled a well-aimed spear, pierced his ribs, and pinned his writhing body to the hard oak.2
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story