Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Chimaera

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CHIMAE'RA (Χίμαιρα). Literally, a she-goat, which the poets and artists of Greece converted into a monster, spouting fire, composed of three different animals — the head of a lion, the body of a wild goat, ending in a dragon's tail; fabled to have been killed by Bellerophon. Hor. Ovid. Tibull. Hom. &c.