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flat noses, pointed ears, small horns growing out of the forehead, and the tails of horses or goats. They were a roguish but faint-hearted folk, lovers of See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine and See also:

WOMEN

women, roaming to the See also:

MUSIC

music of pipes and See also:

CYMBALS (Fr. cymbales; Ger. Becken; Ital. piatti or cinelli)

cymbals, See also:

CASTANETS (Fr. castagnettes, Ger. Kastagnetten, Span. castanuelas)

castanets and bagpipes, dancing with the nymphs or pursuing them and striking terror into men. They had a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

dance calles Sikinnis. In earlier Greek See also:

art they appear as old and ugly, but in later art, especially in See also:

WORKS

works of the See also:

ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic school, this See also:

savage See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character is softened into a more youthful and graceful aspect. There is a famous statue supposed to be a copy of a See also:

WORK

work of See also:

PRAXITELES

Praxiteles, representing a graceful satyr leaning against a See also:

tree with a See also:

FLUTE

flute in his See also:

hand. In See also:

ATTICA

Attica there was a See also:

SPECIES

species of See also:

DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama known as the Satyric; it parodied the legends of gods and heroes, and the See also:

CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus was composed of satyrs. See also:

EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides's See also:

PLAY

play of the Cyclops is the only extant example of this See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of drama. The older satyrs were called Sileni, the younger Satyrisci. By the See also:

ROMAN

Roman poets they were often confounded with the Fauns. The See also:

SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol of the shy and timid satyr was the See also:

hare.

In some districts of See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

GREECE

Greece the spirits known as Calicantsars offer points of resemblance to the See also:

ancient satyrs; they have goats' ears and the feet of asses or goats, are covered with See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair, and love women and the dance. The herdsmen of See also:

PARNASSUS (mod. Likkoura or Likeri)

Parnassus believe in a demon of the mountain who is See also:

lord'of See also:

HARES

hares and goats. In the Authorized Version of Isa. xiii. 21, xxxiv. 14 the word " satyr " is used to render the See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew se'irim, "hairy ones. A kind of demon or supernatural being known to Hebrew Satyr folk-See also:

lore as inhabiting See also:

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste places is meant; a practice mart of sacrificing to the se'irim is alluded to in Lev. xvii. 7, important. where E. V. has " devils." They correspond to the " shaggy demon of the mountain-pass " (azabb al-'See also:

AKABA, GULF OF

akaba) of old Arab superstition.

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