Centaurs

Pesaro, or Faenza, thanks to him and his "Centaurs" -- that famous band of free riders he had levied from the Tuscan hills.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

As another method of accounting for their alleged descent from a cloud, it has been suggested that the Centaurs were a rapacious race of men, who ravaged the neighbouring country: that those who wrote the first accounts of them, in the ancient dialect of Greece, gave them the name of Nephelim, (the epithet of the giants of Scripture,) many

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

Levison reckons the main source of the Centaurs is the "scattered disc", part of the Kuiper belt of debris beyond Neptune. and you'll get:

New Scientist - Online News 2010

The Centaurs were a people of Thessaly, and supposed to be the first managers of horses; and the neighbouring inhabitants never having seen any such thing before, fabulously reported them monsters, half men and half horses.

Hudibras Samuel Butler 1646

In fact, the worst accusations that the author seemed to be able to come up with were that it was unpredictable, that it could not be controlled, and that some of the so-called lesser races such as Centaurs and fauns were known to practice it.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

And I don't believe I ever explicitly mentioned "Centaurs" in my post above.

Common Descent & Common Design – An Unexpected Outcome 2008

JJS P. Eng: And I don't believe I ever explicitly mentioned "Centaurs" in my post above.

Common Descent & Common Design – An Unexpected Outcome 2008

JJS P. Eng: And I don't believe I ever explicitly mentioned "Centaurs" in my post above.

Common Descent & Common Design – An Unexpected Outcome 2008

In fact, the worst accusations that the author seemed to be able to come up with were that it was unpredictable, that it could not be controlled, and that some of the so-called lesser races such as Centaurs and fauns were known to practice it.

The Outstretched Shadow 2003

Getting up from this tribute, he was faced by Cesare Borgia and his men; by Cesare who, used to such stratagems as this of late, had had the whole story out of Ludovic at Milan, and forestalled Nona by buying up the troop of "Centaurs" before ever he entered the city.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett