Cheiron

for I come from his cave, from the presence of Chariclo and Philyra, where the holy daughters of the Centaur raised me.

the burning fire divided its blaze for him, and he bore the child away and gave him to the Magnesian Centaur to teach him to heal many painful diseases for men.

If it were proper for this commonplace prayer to be made by my tongue, I would want Cheiron the son of Philyra to be alive again, he who has departed, the wide-ruling son of Cronus son of Uranus;

And she was subject to Iason, shepherd of the people, and bore a son Medeus whom Cheiron the son of Philyra brought up in the mountains.

Let the message be sent at once to Cheiron’s immortal cave, right away, and let the daughter of Nereus never again place the leaves of strife in our hands.

But Cheiron rescued him and carried out the destiny which had been fated by Zeus.

Deep-thinking Cheiron reared Jason under his stone roof, and later Asclepius, whom he taught the gentle-handed laws of remedies.

But golden-haired Achilles, staying in the home of Philyra as a child, played at great deeds, often brandishing in his hands a javelin with a short blade;

And again the trailings of Hector’s body round the grave of Patroclus and the slaughter of the living captives upon his pyre, all these we will affirm to be lies, nor will we suffer our youth to believe that Achilles, the son of a goddess and of Peleus the most chaste of men, grandson of Zeus, and himself bred under the care of the most sage Cheiron, was of so perturbed a spirit as to be affected …

For among the ancients the companions of Cheiron to whom I referred learnt many noble lessons in their youth, beginning with hunting;

For he who inculcates right speech and conduct would merit the honour given by Achilles to Cheiron and Phoenix;