Centaur

Or rather perhaps your people resembles not Heracles, but some Centaur or Cyclops who has drunk and is in love, in body strong and great, but in mind untaught.

These men, then, all but raving, do many evil things, just as Homer says the Centaur, made drunk in the house of Pirithous, wrought evil deeds.

so that it is a very varied and dreadful beast, such as poets and craftsmen mould — Centaurs and Sphinxes and Chimaeras — putting together out of all manner of natures into one form of image.

And though the prows bear figures threatening to cast rocks such as Centaurs throw, thou shalt find them but hollow planks and painted terrors.

But if I learn to ride, I shall, when I am on horseback, do everything as the Centaur does, of course;

for, in my opinion at least, the Centaurs must have had difficulty in making use of many of the good things invented for man;

And so from that time even to this day, the Persians follow that practice, and no Persian gentleman would be seen going anywhere on foot, if he could help it.