Crossword-Solution: LAPITHS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

After the second generation we Scogans are lost in the mists of antiquity.” “After dinner,” said Henry Wimbush, a little piqued by his wife’s disparaging comment on the masters of Crome, “I’ll read you an episode from my History that will make you admit that even the Lapiths, in their own respectable way, had their tragedies and strange adventures.” “I’m glad to hear it,” said Priscilla.

And round the table sat the three sisters, the three lovely Lapiths--eating! “At George’s sudden entrance they had all looked towards the door, and now they sat, petrified by the same astonishment which kept George fixed and staring.

The subject here is the combat between Lapiths and Centaurs, one of the favorite themes of Greek sculpture, as of Greek painting.

Thither, exulting in his force, he flies: His following host with clamours rend the skies: To plunge the Grecians headlong in the main, Such their proud hopes; but all their hopes were vain! To guard the gates, two mighty chiefs attend, Who from the Lapiths’ warlike race descend; This Polypœtes, great Perithous’ heir, And that Leonteus, like the god of war.

For an account of the contest between the Centaurs and Lapiths here referred to, see Grecian and Roman Mythology.