Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Chiron

    mythological figure · 5 works · 10 mentions · 12 anchored passages

    Chiron the Centaur

    in the texts

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Legendary healer credited with having given Asklepios the medicinal drugs later used by Machaon.

    then, when he had seen the wound, he wiped away the blood and applied some soothing drugs which Chiron had given to Asklepios out of the good will he bore him.
    chapter 4
    wash the black blood from off it with warm water, and lay upon it those gracious herbs which, so they say, have been shown you by Achilles, who was himself shown them by Chiron, most righteous of all the centaurs.
    chapter 7
    This was the ashen spear from Mount Pelion, which Chiron had cut upon a mountain top and had given to Peleus, wherewith to deal out death among heroes.
    chapter 16

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Mythological centaur healer, cited as unable to cure men whose ailments stem from their own vice.

    And neither Chiron nor Asclepius nor the sons of Asclepius healing them are of any benefit to them, because of their own licentiousness and wickedness;
    oration 6
    " Then Chiron, growing angry with him, and in his anger bristling his mane, and casting a terrible sidelong glance like a flash of lightning, scarcely keeping himself from striking him—for he had it in mind to love the boy—5.
    oration 58

    Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

    The wise centaur who raised and trained Achilles at his home on Mount Pelion.

    Clytemnestra:
    iphigenia in aulis
    In Chiron’s home, at sacred Pelion’s foot.
    iphigenia in aulis
    Chiron brought him up, to prevent his learning the ways of the wicked.
    iphigenia in aulis

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The Centaur credited with first teaching mortals righteousness and with educating Achilles.

    And Hermippus of Berytus calls Chiron the Centaur "wise," concerning whom the author of the Titanomachy too says that he was the first to lead the race of mortals into righteousness, by showing oaths and glad sacrifices and the figures of Olympus.
    book 1

    EpigramsClassical · Greek

    A mythic centaur figure summoned to bring many Centaurs against the kiln.

    Let Chiron also come and bring many Centaurs— all that escaped the hands of Heracles and all that were destroyed:
    epigrams