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Rhoetus

1. A centaur, probably the same whom Greek poets call Rhoecus. At the wedding of Peirithous he was wounded by Dryas and took to flight. (Ov. Met. 12.300; comp. Verg. G. 2.456.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.