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Lapith

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Lap·ith  (lpth)
n. Greek Mythology
One of a Thessalian tribe who at the disastrous wedding of their king defeated the drunken centaurs.
Lapith [ˈlæpɪθ]
n pl Lapithae [ˈlæpɪˌθiː], Lapiths
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a member of a people in Thessaly who at the wedding of their king, Pirithoüs, fought the drunken centaurs
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178-190) And there was the strife of the Lapith spearmen gathered round the prince Caeneus and Dryas and Peirithous, with Hopleus, Exadius, Phalereus, and Prolochus, Mopsus the son of Ampyce of Titaresia, a scion of Ares, and Theseus, the son of Aegeus, like unto the deathless gods.
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