In early Attic and Beotian vase-paintings , they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be. Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithes, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.
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