A'sbolus
(
*)/Asbolos), a centaur, whom Hesiod (
Scut. Here. 185) calls
οἰωνιστής, probably from his skill in observing or prophesying from the flight of birds.
He fought against the Lapithae at the nuptials of Peirithous, and was subsequently nailed to a cross by Heracles, who is said to have made an epigram upon him, which is preserved in Philostratus. (
Her. 19.17; comp. Tzetz.
Chil. 5.22.)
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