The tawniness behind—his yellow head

Enmuffled by the brute's, backed by that grin of dread.

The mountain-roving savage Kentaur-race

He strewed with deadly bow about their place,

Slaying with wingèd shafts: Peneios knew,

Beauteously-eddying, and the long tracts too

Of pasture trampled fruitless, and as well

Those desolated haunts Mount Pelion under,

And, grassy up to Homolé, each dell

Whence, having filled their hands with pine-tree plunder,