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Thessaly, land of the Lapiths.


Lapiths (LAP-iths). A tribe in Thessaly, of whom at one point Theseus's friend Peirithous was king. It was at Peirithous's wedding feast that drunken centaurs attacked the Lapiths and also killed the supposedly invulnerable Caeneus by pounding him into the ground.