18
- p. 49
- EPITOME 18. Horse
- [Eratosthenes:] Euripides for his part says in his Melanippe that this is Hippe, the daughter of Cheiron, who was deceived and seduced by Aiolos, ... she was place among the constellations by Artemis, in a position in which she is out [cont.]
- p. 50
- of sight of the Centaur (for that constellation is said to be Cheiron*). The hind part of her body is invisible, so that no one should know she is female.
- p. 51
- [Hyginus:] Euripides for his part says in his Melanippe that Hippe, daughter of Cheiron, was peviously called Thetis; she was brought up on Mount Pelion, and was extremely fond of hunting, but was seduced one day by Aiolos, son of Hellen, a grandson of Zeus, and found herself pregnant. ...
De Astronomica
- 2.18.2.1–5
- Euripides autem in Melanippa Hippen, Chi-
- ronis centauri filiam, Thet[i]n antea appellatam dicit.
- Quae cum aleretur in monte Pelio et studium in ue-
- nando maximum haberet, quodam tempore ab Aeolo,
- Hellenis filio, Iouis nepote, persuasam concepisse;
- Hard 2015 translation, p. 51
- Euripides for his part says in his Melanippe that Hippe, daughter of Cheiron, was previuosly called Thetis; she was brought up on Mount Pelion, and was exremely fond of hunting, but was seduced one day by Aiolos, son of Hellen, a grandson of Zeus, and found herself pregnant [with Melanippe].
- Grant translation via ToposText
- Euripides in his Melanippe, says that Melanippe [sic], daughter of Chiron the Centaur was once called Thetis. Brought up on Mount Helicon, a girl especially fond of hunting, she was wooed by Aeolus, son of Hellen, and grandson of Jove, and conceived a child be him.
Metamorphoses
- 2.633–675
- OCYROE AND AESCULAPIUS
- Chiron, the Centaur, taught his pupil; proud
- that he was honoured by that God-like charge.
- Behold, his lovely daughter, who was born
- beside the margin of a rapid stream,
- came forward, with her yellow hair as gold
- adown her shoulders.—She was known by name
- Ocyroe. The hidden things that Fate
- conceals, she had the power to tell; for not
- content was she to learn her father's arts,
- but rather pondered on mysterious things.
- So, when the god of Frenzy warmed her breast,
- gazing on Aesculapius ...
- ...
- "And thou, dear father Chiron, brought to birth
- ...
- and the three Destinies shall cut thy thread."
- ...Now my human form
- puts on another shape, and the long grass
- affords me needed nourishment. I want
- to range the boundless plains and have become,
- in image of my father's kind, a mare:
- but gaining this, why lose my human shape?
- My father's form is one of twain combined.”
- ... Her voice and shape
were altogether changed, and since that day
the change has given her a different name.