The reading presents the river of blood as the place where violent tyrants boil while centaurs police the boundary with arrows.
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Centaurs
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Between it and the base of the embankment raised files of centaurs, who were armed with arrows, as in that world above they used..."
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The violent against others are punished by drowning in a boiling river of blood and being shot by centaurs if they try to rise above their allotted level.
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"...Between it and the base of the embankment raised files of centaurs, who were armed with arrows, as in that world above they used..."
"If not, I draw my bow. My master told him, We shall make reply only to Chiron. When we reach his side, your hasty..."
"...accustomed to do that. And my good guide, now near the centaur's chest, the place where his two natures met, replied, He's indeed alive,..."
"...some who were sunk up to their brows, and that huge centaur said, These are the tyrants who plunged their hands in blood and..."
"...Okay? And if they ever try to get out of it, centaurs come and shoot arrows at them. Okay? That's, that's what they've done..."
"...I do not think Maremma has the number of snakes that centaur carried on his haunch until the part that takes our human form..."
"Line 115. A little farther on, the centaur stopped above a group that seemed to rise above them. And he saw the boiling blood..."
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