Lexicographical Neighbors of Sileni
Literary usage of Sileni
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"C. sileni. 386. Those older and bearded satyrs are often also called 1 sileni
... Among the figures of the old satyr-drama, Pappo- 5 sileni was the name ..."
2. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"Those older and bearded satyrs are often also called 1 sileni ... Among the
figures of the old satyr-drama, Pappo- 5 sileni was the name given to the ..."
3. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"sileni. The older satyrs were generally named sileni, but one of these sileni is
commonly known as the Silenus, who always accompanies Dionysus. ..."
4. History of Ancient Pottery: Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Samuel Birch (1873)
"... tos — Ares — Aphrodite — Hermes— He*tia — Dionysos — sileni, Nymphs and
Satyrs—Pnn — Bacchanals on ..."
5. Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"... The older satyrs were generally named sileni, but one of these sileni is
commonly known as the Silenus, who always accompanies Dionysus. ..."
6. The History of Ancient Art Among the Greeks by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Giles Henry Lodge (1850)
"The older Satyrs or sileni, and that Silenus in particular who educated Bacchus,
have, in serious figures, not a single trait inclining to the ludicrous, ..."
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