Cum Perseus interfecit Medusam, equus alatus Pegasus natus est ex cruenta. Minerva cepit et donavit Pegasum, tum dedit Musis donum.
When Perseus killed Medusa, the winged horse Pegasus was born from her blood. Minerva caught and tamed Pegasus, then gave him to the Muses as a gift.
Sometime later, the hero Bellerophon was sent by Proctus to fight a chimera in the hope that the handsome young hero would be killed by the ferocious beast. Before going to fight the chimera, Bellerophon visited a soothsayer who told him that he would only win if he found Pegasus.
Bellerophon was instructed by the soothsayer to spend a night in the temple of Minerva. In his dreams, the goddess came to him and gave him a golden bridle. She also showed him a vision of Pegasus drinking at the well of Pirene. When Bellerophon woke, the bridle was still in his hands, and he went immediately to the well where Pegasus was waiting. At the sight of the golden bridle, Pegasus went willingly to Bellerophon, and they easily defeated the chimera.
Bellerophon and Pegasus went on many other adventures together until the day Bellerophon decided to fly to Mount Olympus and become a god. Zeus, angered by the hero's rashness, sent down a gadfly to sting Pegasus. The horse shied, and Bellerophon fell back to earth where he was forced to wander blind and lame for the rest of his life. Zeus used Pegasus to carry his thunderbolts.
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