"hippotaur" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982 May 1, Graham Anderson, Eros Sophistes: Ancient Novelists at Play, number 9, Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 37:",
          "text": "Cnemon is surprised even by the shadow of a crocodile, while Nausicles smiles at a foolish bird-catcher sent to catch the phoenicopter; or the giraffe terrifies the Ethiopians at a point in the plot when surprise is least expected - before Theagenes improvises a hippotaur to deal with it. This is again the world of Herodotus-at-the-Zoo.",
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          "ref": "1999 January 29, Heliodorus (of Emesa.), edited by Moses Hadas, Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance, reprint edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 267:",
          "text": "Theagenes was extolled to the skies for having welded the novel team into a hippotaur.",
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          "ref": "2014 July 14, Shadi Bartsch, “FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader”, in Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius, reprint edition, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 148:",
          "text": "Hence, we have a Thessalian doing battle not with a man-horse (centaur) but with a bull-horse (hippotaur), and although the analogy has its weaknesses, it is certainly suggestive of the earlier fight.",
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          "text": "So precisely did he correlate the speed of the two racing animals animals that from a distance the two heads sprang from a single neck, and they acclaimed Theagenes as a hero who had brought so strange a team, a hippotaur, a creature half bull, half horse, beneath the yoke.",
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          "text": "The striking image of his horse in parallel to the bull so that they look like a hybrid animal, a hippotaur, governed by one man (29,5), makes true the image of the Lapiths defeating the hybrid Centaurs pictured on his mantle (3,3,5).",
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          "word": "hippogriff"
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