...as Briaretis to protect him againft the Gods. Ver. 703. Triple-form' d'] Chimera was feigned to have the Head of a Lion, the Body of a Goat, and the Tail of a Dragon, bccaufe a Mountain fo called had Lions at the top, Goats in the middle, and Serpents at the...

...goats, and the top much frequented by lions, which gave occafion to the poets to paint it as a monfter with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a ferpent. This mountain was firlt planted, and rendered habitable by Belleropbon, who is therefore fabled...

...to agree, fall in, or fuit with. CHIME'RA [S.] an imaginary monfter, which ihe poets fable to have the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon ; and add, that this odd bead was killed by Bellerophon. By us it is underftood only as a fancied...

...idea idea of Chimera, he only joined into one anirod, parts which belonged to different ani•uls ; the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a fcrpcnt (<:). Phidias U faid to have formed his celebrated ftatuc of Jupiter, merely by the force of...

...fable, which paints the Chimera as a monfter, throwing fire out of its throat ; with the head and brea/i of a lion -, the body of a goat ; and the tail of a dragon : and becaufe Bellerophon rendered this mountain habitable, it has been thence feigned that...

...monfter called Chimaera, which laid waftc the country. This monfter was of immortal defcent; it had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon ; it vomited from its mouth volumes of fire and fmoke. The young hero however, affifted by Minerva,...

...room to the imagination of the poets to invent the monfier Chimaera: they painted it as a beaft wilh the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a ferpent ; whence the common expreffion Chimaera, to intimate the abfurdity of any vifionary fuppofuion,...

...devour them. 230 The Chimaera *was a monster, which vomited forth fire ; he had the head and breast of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, as it is expressed in a known verse, and described by Ovid : " Prima leo, postrema draco, media...

...exclamation produced by the name of the object of his love, who is compared, 1. 24, to the Chimœra, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. The Chimeera was really a mountain in Lycia, whose summit contained lions, whose middle was fed by...

...Condamine ascended,in 1745, to the height of 15,815feet. CHIMERA ; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bcllerophon. (See Hipponous.)...