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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4313741, member: 99456&quot;]Good looking felines.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here&#039;s a mixed up cat, described by Homer in the Iliad <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D6%3Acard%3D156" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D6%3Acard%3D156" rel="nofollow">VI.180</a>:</p><p>&quot;first he bade him slay the raging Chimaera.&nbsp; She was of divine stock, not of men, in the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the midst a goat, breathing forth in terrible wise the might of blazing fire&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Chimaera of Arezzo from 4th Century BC Etruscans:</p><p><img src="https://museoarcheologiconazionaledifirenze.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/chimerona.jpg?w=809&amp;h=540" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And on a coin of Sikyonia, Sikyon:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096811[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Sikyonia, Sikyon</b>, 330-280 BC, AR hemidrachm</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Chimaera advancing left; ΣI below</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Dove flying left[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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