Note 977 — Chapter VIII · DIONYSOS.
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It is, it would seem, a mere chance that we have not what might be called a ‘fish Centaur.’ On an early black-figured vase (R. Mitt. II. 1887, Taf. viii.) we have a series of men represented as completely human, not with the body ending in fish tails, but with an extra fish tail added to the complete human body. These are the natural monster-forms of a people dwelling on the sea-coast.