Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A satyr, usually depicted as drunken and jolly, in the entourage of Dionysus.
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- noun Greek mythology A companion and tutor to the wine god
Dionysus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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After seeing Push I have no doubt Dakota Fanning or Anna SophiaRobb could pull off a young Aenea, Djimon Hounsou fulfils my imagination of Sergeant Gregorius, Ian Mckellen has the presence and humor to be Martin Silenus, Raul I imagine to be terribly hard to cast, I can't think of anyone established who could do it.
Dan Simmons's Hyperion Sci-Fi Series Being Adapted by Warner Bros « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Martin Silenus, in The Poet’s Tale, tells of his life as a failed poet who nearly loses his life and then begins his opus that will make him remembered throughout the centuries.
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Martin Silenus, in The Poet’s Tale, tells of his life as a failed poet who nearly loses his life and then begins his opus that will make him remembered throughout the centuries.
“Hyperion” by Dan Simmons (Doubleday, 1989) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Their chief was called Silenus, a minor deity associated like Hermes and Priapus with fertility.
Pan and Satyrs James Gurney 2009
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Silenus is finely painted in the sixth eclogue of Virgil.] 4 Every impartial reader must perceive and condemn the partiality of Julian against his uncle
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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We again meet The Consul, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kessad, Sol Weintraub and his daughter Rachel, Martin Silenus, Father Lenar Hoyt, and Het Masteen, the pilgrims all striving to reach and petition the Shrike for their one wish to be granted.
The Fall of Hyperion: It’s the End of the World « A Working Title 2009
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They come upon the Satyrs and their father Silenus, who have been separated from their god Dionysus and enslaved by a Cyclops.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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They come upon the Satyrs and their father Silenus, who have been separated from their god Dionysus and enslaved by a Cyclops.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Thus the novel follows the Carthaginian foot soldier, Imco Vaca, and also tells of a Numidian horseman, Tusselo, and of a Greek scribe, Silenus, and of the camp follower,
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The band is amusingly introduced by their MC Silenus director Louis Butelli, doing his best Tom Waits.
Michael Giltz: Theater: NYMF #3 -- Chorus Girls, Satyrs, And Song Cycles Michael Giltz 2011
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