Note 136 — Second Part. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Lucretius, De rerum natura, bk. V. 888.,
Ne forte ex homine et veterino semine equorum Confieri credas Centauros posse, nec esse.
(Never suppose that the Centaurs could be framed from man and the bestial seed of horses, and were not so framed). Clement of Alexandria, Coh. p. 51. Aristonymus the Ephesian begat with a she-ass, Fulvius Stella with a mare, the former a girl, the latter a boy. Plutarch, Parall. ch. 26.