| "After the vows are exchanged, the priestess leads the couple to the market square; where they are harnessed to a cart and driven thrice about the village bounds. The charioteer, in the person of Eros, whips them on with a bunch of roses; which signify both the pain of love, and its sweetness. Thus they are made yokemates for life..." -Description of a centaur wedding ritual, from the Kentaurologia of Hippophilus Rhodius (Copied after the first-century original in the Stalla Vecchia of S. Epona in Rome)
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