How To Use Satyr In A Sentence

  • The University of Pennsylvania Museum features everything from a nineteenth-century bronze cast of the satyr Silenos (left), to a helmet from the eighth-century B.C. (center), to an aryballos (right) from eastern Greece, ca. 600-570 B.C. Museums: Classics in the City of Brotherly Love
  • Naiadas Satyris caneret Fontanus amatas, 35 clauderet imparibus uerba Capella modis, cumque forent alii, quorum mihi cuncta referre nomina longa mora est, carmina uulgus habet, essent et iuuenes quorum, quod inedita cura est, appellandorum nil mihi iuris adest 40 The Last Poems of Ovid
  • A desditoza satyra, as lizonjas Para os authores das dedicatórias. Poetica de Horatio, e o Ensaio sobre a critica de Alexandre Pope : em portuguez
  • Many of this species in captivity have been hybridised with the Satyr tragopan, since the females look so similar.
  • I advised Spry to mount a SATYR operation, and demonstrated the device to him.
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  • For example, there are about 30 species of satyrid butterflies in the genus Calisto that are endemic to Hispaniola. WN.com - Articles related to Japan, Pacific nations deny report of trading cash for whaling votes
  • A satyr is half man and half goat in Greek and Roman mythology.
  • We must not believe, notwithstanding the assertions of almost all zoological writers, that the word orang-otang is applied exclusively in the Malay language to the Simia satyrus of Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
  • The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain. 2009 September | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • In situ development of a satyrid butterfly on calcareous grassland exposed to elevated carbon dioxide. New Content on CO2 Science
  • As Helen sat, they stood, and with this the mood changed from purely pastoral to a hint of lurking satyr. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • So if you stop projecting Lyle's image -' `- they'll all become resistible and my career as a satyr will end. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The thyrsus was a long staff, carried by Bacchus, and by the Satyrs and Bacchanalians engaged in the worship of the God of the grape. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
  • Her confrontation of the insatiable satyr while he has his hand up another honey's haunches is the sole moment of real emotion in what is otherwise a movie of surfaces.
  • Many of the works here tell a layered story: A volute-krater -- a vessel used to mix water and wine -- is illustrated with two ceremonies: a formal one with a woman preparing to make an offering to the gods; the other, a frolic of maenads and satyrs. Worshipping Women: Onassis Center
  • The ancients, who had a very faint and imperfect knowledge of the great peninsula of Africa, were sometimes tempted to believe, that the torrid zone must ever remain destitute of inhabitants; 126 and they sometimes amused their fancy by filling the vacant space with headless men, or rather monsters; 127 with horned and cloven-footed satyrs; 128 with fabulous centaurs; 129 and with human pygmies, who waged a bold and doubtful warfare against the cranes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Many of Aeschylus' productions were connected ‘tetralogies’, comprising three tragedies presenting successive episodes of a single story (a ‘trilogy’) followed by a satyr-play based on part of the same or a related myth.
  • Before his return to Paris he had already begun to specialize in the small-scale terracotta statuettes and reliefs of satyrs, bacchantes, and other mythological figures for which he is famous.
  • There is a form of excessive libido in men called satyriasis, which reaches such a degree that the men are often not able to control their desires, and they will satisfy their passion even if they know that the result is sure to be a venereal infection or several years in prison. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • Terminology "Nymphomania" and "satyriasis" are not listed as disorders in the DSM-IV, though they remain a part of ICD-10, each listed as a subtype of "Hypersexuality. Sexual Addiction
  • Of how much confusion the spelling which used to be so common, ‘satyr’ for ‘satire’, is at once the consequence, the expression, and again the cause; not indeed that this confusion first began with us {279}; for the same already found place in the Latin, where ‘satyricus’ was continually written for ‘satiricus’ out of a false assumption of the identity between the Roman _satire_ and the Greek _satyric_ drama. English Past and Present
  • Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone. Pan and Satyrs
  • Pärt was looking at Anish Kapoor's immense sculpture ‘Marsyas’, named after the Greek satyr who was flayed alive after losing a musical contest with Apollo.
  • Goverde et al. (2002) raised larvae of the satyrid butterfly (Coenonympha pamphilus New Content on CO2 Science
  • We find that they were also used in the ceremonies of the Mysteries, for we see their forms represented on the vases themselves: Bacchus frequently holds a cantharus, Satyrs carry a diota. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • At the festival itself, some of the men wear small goat horns attached to their heads, giving them a rather satyr like appearance.
  • Some of these include the western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), Koklass pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha), Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), and Cheer pheasant (Catreus wallichi). Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
  • The satyr holds a long cowherd's horn in his hands.
  • Masquerading the satyrs and hamadryads as famous characters in the history of art is the primary burlesque idea of the Petite Commande.
  • There is a word for the hatred of men, just as there is one for the male counterpart to nymphomania: they are ‘misandry’ and ‘satyriasis,’ respectively.
  • Sea foam and a large whirling wave submerge Renaissance-style domes, while muscled, skirted satyrs on horseback attempt to ride upstream.
  • Poulenc ends his opera with a grand chorus, which alternates between a sultry waltz and a kick of satyr's heels, a hymn to ‘make babies!’
  • Nora and L. M. began to nibble at one another, and I thought of a nymph and satyr at play. 52449_CLARA
  • In the past, other labels such as nymphomania, satyriasis, and hyper-sexuality have been used.
  • To the former class of animals belong the so-called castor, the satyrium, the otter, and the so-called latax, or beaver. The History of Animals
  • One side depicts Herakles, clad in spotted tunic with dagger drawn, about to slay the Nemean lion; the other, Dionysus and two nude satyrs.
  • Last for now: two birds really, because I can't decide between them: the Temminck's and Satyr Tragopans, Tragopan temmincki and Tragopan satyra. Archive 2006-06-01
  • The museum here is home to a famous statue, the Dancing Satyr, which was retrieved from the seabed by chance, in a fishing net.
  • In a world that can sometimes be disgusting, we evolved an upper tier of emotional longing -- the aspiration for purity -- to keep us balanced in this satyricon of carnal delights where animality beckons and frequently wins. Mark Matousek: Why We Don't Need God to Be Good (and What Religious Folk Don't Want You to Know)
  • We find that they were also used in the ceremonies of the Mysteries, for we see their forms represented on the vases themselves: Bacchus frequently holds a cantharus, Satyrs carry a diota. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • To paraphrase his satyrical entry at the Reagan Wing, Doug alleges that Mike! faked or made up this DUI or at least preemptively announced it as a devious ploy to gain sympathy from the electorate. Sound Politics: Last Call
  • The tale should be classed with those of the satyrs who sang and danced in the train of Osiris; with the little boys whom they would not feed till after they had run eight leagues, to teach them to conquer the world; with the two children who cried bec in asking for bread and who by that means discovered that the Phrygian was the original language; with A Philosophical Dictionary
  • She has a satyr boyfriend, tons of homework to fit in, tests to study for and rivals to outdance while trying to save the campus from the various bad guys who seek to claim the node as their own.
  • The title links the play to the Satyr plays tragedy comes from the Greek “goat song.” DesignerBlog
  • We must not believe, notwithstanding the assertions of almost all zoological writers, that the word orang-otang is applied exclusively in the Malay language to the Simia satyrus of Borneo. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • There are several other high-elevation specialists, such as the Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis), Tibetan partridge (Perdix hodgsoniae), snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), lammergeier, and the Himalayan griffon, that also need conservation attention. Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
  • Federico Fellini – moviemaker who was doing bizarre films of ancient Greece and Rome, of love and of fools way before the more recent films (Amarcord, Satyricon, 8 1/2) Weird Tales’ 85 Weirdest « Colleen Anderson
  • Five years of sexual relations with this satyr of a King were all that she could manage, given what she called her ‘cold temperament’ and her numerous health complications.
  • Father Bacchus at Teos, a monopteral; Arcesius, on the Corinthian proportions, and on the Ionic temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands; on the Mausoleum, Satyrus and The Ten Books on Architecture
  • Other birds that are typical of these high-altitude ecosystems and can be used as focal species for conservation management planning include the blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus), western tragopan (Tragopan melanoephalus), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), and Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), which inhabit the shrubby ground cover, and the large avian predators, lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis). Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
  • He places it in the foreground of the picture, lapping with its little pink tongue at the deep red blood which trickles down the torso of the tortured satyr.
  • For if this myth of the harpies were a reality, what of the other legends -- the Hydra, the centaurs, the chimera, Medusa, Pan and the satyrs? Wings in the Night
  • In art, Bacchus is represented as a curly-haired child drinking wine; as a young man, naked apart from a crown of vine leaves and grapes; or heavily drunk, sometimes being put to bed by nymphs and satyrs.
  • Examples of endemic invertebrates are the dragonfly Teinobasis malawiensis, which is known only from montane streams in northern Malawi, the Kitulo-endemic satyrid butterfly Neocoenyra petersi, and a further three butterflies confined to the Nyika Plateau. Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic
  • They are filled with fawns, centaurs, satyrs and goblins.
  • Many of these characters can seem larger than life or completely out of mythological tales, especially if you consider fighters like the satyr or the undead summoner.
  • Eundemque noctibus micare crebris ignibus, Ægipanum Satyrorumque lascivia impleri, tibiarum ac fistulae cantu tympanorumque et cymbalorum sonitu strepere. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • The satyr's hands are raised as if to play a flute, yet the instrument itself is not represented.
  • With a growl, Satyr turned on the engine and accelerated into his father's car, denting the side and scratching the doors.
  • In "satyriasis," with its connotation of pathology, he has found his true tone, which he extends in denouncing among homosexuals "a dreary sexual conformism ... rigidly defined and routinized sex moves in the theatrical costume of police or ranch wear [sic]. An Exchange on AIDS
  • In Lev. 17: 7 the word "devil" is the translation of the Hebrew sair, meaning a "goat" or "satyr" (Isa. 13: 21; 34: 14), alluding to the wood-daemons, the objects of idolatrous worship among the heathen. Easton's Bible Dictionary
  • The Petite Commande, a suite of statues of satyrs and hamadryads, embodied the rustic character of the place.
  • Shchukin grasped at once that Nymph and Satyr was an affront to decency and morals, which only increased his impatience to possess it. My Kind of Collector
  • Xavius had been reborn as a satyr—the first of the goatlike monsters now so long the enemies of the night elves—and his malevolence had only grown with his new, hideous aspect. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
  • A pamphlet of 1639 showed Robin as a horned, hoofed, ithyphallic satyr, leading witches' revels in the company of a black dog and an owl. Robin Hood
  • In the sixth canto she finds herself lost and abandoned amongst a ‘salvage nation’ who resemble the satyrs and nymphs of classical mythology.
  • Satyrs are described as roguish but faint-hearted folk — subversive and dangerous, yet shy and cowardly. Pan and Satyrs
  • Bvt because in those dayes when the Poets first taxed by _Satyre_ and The Arte of English Poesie
  • It bears the title "Satyricon Libri IX" from satura, sc. lanx, "a full dish". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Thereafter Jurgen came upon a considerable commotion in the bushes, where a satyr was at play with an oread. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
  • Behind it Tiberius in a travelling-cloak, his hands unringed, marched meditating on the curiosities of life, while to the rear there straggled a troop of dancing satyrs, led by a mime dressed in resemblance of Augustus, whose defects he caricatured, whose vices he parodied and on whom the surging crowd closed in. Imperial Purple
  • The image of the satyr turns him into a buffoon, a lubricious figure, a familiar character in satyric dramas.
  • Hieronymus Mercurialis, in his chapter of melancholy, cites it for an especial cause of this malady, [1482] priapismus, satyriasis, &c. Haliabbas, 5. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • CHANCE: The impression that we have is that when Jews are massacred, the word massacred, in a hotel on the satyr evening, which you know is a holiday, a very special day when Jews, Passover. CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2002
  • There the sexual excitement increased to a veritable satyriasis, which lasted until he died. 06 « November « 2007 « Jahsonic
  • The bronzes included statuary and furnishings - a statue of a winged Eros, a head of Dionysus on a herm (rectangular shaft), and large statuettes of Eros playing a lyre, of three dancing dwarfs, a satyr, an actor, Hermes, and a dog.
  • O ye Napeas and Dryads! which do wontedly inhabit the thickets and groves, so may the nimble and lascivious satyrs, by whom (although in vain) you are beloved, never have power to interrupt your sweet rest, as you shall assist me to lament my disasters, or at least attend them, whilst I dolefully breathe them. The Third Book. XI. Which Treats of the Strange Adventures That Happened to the Knight of the Mancha in Sierra Morena; and of the Penance He Did There, in Imitation of Beltenebros
  • How they had passed over the plains of Coastlund eventlessly, riding horses Alfric had received as gifts of gratitude from the centaur chief Archala for having helped drive the satyrs from the swamp. Virginity
  • Pompeian society famously had its licentious side—not without humor—and some naughty bits are here too, including outrageously well-endowed satyrs and an amazing flying phallus with dangling bronze bells. The Gracious Art of Living
  • Here and there are disposed naiads and leaping satyrs.
  • I did, however, see a small monkey with enormous military moustaches, a satyr tragopan (answers on a postcard), and a pair of red river hogs - each of which were fairly exciting in their own way.
  • In the foreground is a butterfly ornithopter, an elf alien, a BoarCroc, and a satyr. Studio Shot in ImagineFX
  • He would afterward think of Nietzsche's aphorism Around the hero, all things turn into tragedy; around the demigod, into a satyr-play. THE TATTOOED GIRL
  • He was a Centaur, or possibly a Gorgon, or maybe even a Satyr. BEHINDLINGS
  • Nymphs and satyrs in Florentine bronze smirked and capered in the recesses of the pale gray wall, relieved by mouldings and medallions in unburnished gold.
  • Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • A thin trail of smoke trailed from the mouths of the Satyr and Medusa.
  • In keeping with the theme of the game, many are drawn from mythology, such as harpies, Minotaurs, skeletal centaurs, satyrs et al.
  • Eros aka cupid is sometimes refered to as a satyr. Check This Out: Dark Character Posters for Fox's Percy Jackson « FirstShowing.net
  • Priapism continued, but the man went into a soporose condition, with occasional intervals of satyriasis. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • His following is made up of satyrs and sileni (amoral woodland creatures, basically human but with some animal characteristics) and maenads, who seem possessed or intoxicated.
  • In the past, other labels such as nymphomania, satyriasis, and hyper-sexuality have been used
  • This Tremolo offshoot's good-time electronica sounds like a Nintendo system haunted by fairies and satyrs.
  • The satyr, finding an aulos, a flute that had been discarded by Athena, recklessly challenged Apollo, god of music and master of the lyre, to what the jazzmen call a cutting contest, to see which one of them was more adept on his instrument. The Lampshade
  • “If you call Forsyth to tell him you think Dancing Satyr is a, uh, reproduction—” Eye of the Beholder
  • “Aye, aye, Captain,” said the Satyr, sliding the mask up to reveal Thomas R. Farr, Terror's captain of the maintop. The Terror
  • And a dragon of horrible great form lay under the ladder, which made every man to dread and fear to mount up, and she saw Satyra ascending by the same unto above and looking to usward, and said: Doubt ye nothing this dragon, but come up surely that ye may be with me. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • this satyric old man pursues young girls
  • The satyr, drunken as he is, is no match for the heavyweight nymphs.
  • The leading man wore a "natty" outing-suit, and strutted with a little cane; his stock-in-trade was a jaunty air, a kind of perpetual flourish, and a wink that suggested the cunning of a satyr. The Metropolis
  • The first to look after him was his long-suffering wife, Johanna - long-suffering because when he was on a high he was beset by satyriasis, recklessly pursuing every woman within arm's reach.
  • As befits the son of a satyr, Midas was a king who loved the pleasures of this world.
  • Many of the works here tell a layered story: A volute-krater -- a vessel used to mix water and wine -- is illustrated with two ceremonies: a formal one with a woman preparing to make an offering to the gods; the other, a frolic of maenads and satyrs. Worshipping Women: Onassis Center
  • There are several other high-elevation specialists, such as the Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis), Tibetan partridge (Perdix hodgsoniae), snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), lammergeier, and the Himalayan griffon, that also need conservation attention. Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
  • And all around the script paraded nymphs and satyrs, tigers and olifants in crimson, rose, and violet. Excerpt: Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
  • Have they never been to the Comedie Francaise, where horny old satyrs chase their victims from chambre to chambre, with ample screams and slamming of doors? Fortune's Stanley Bing: 11 Questions About the Dominique Strauss-Kahn Affair
  • Dionysos and his satyrs, nymphs, and maenads are, of course, found everywhere in the ancient world, but they appear most frequently in dining rooms and gardens.
  • Like the satyr in his language too; for he uses the commonest words as the outward mask of the divinest truths. The Symposium
  • In particular, it is not related to hypersexuality, sometimes known as nymphomania or satyriasis. Eight Diseases that Give You Super Human Powers | Impact Lab
  • Of course, there are no longer bawdy houses, where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs.
  • Dionysos and his satyrs, nymphs, and maenads are, of course, found everywhere in the ancient world, but they appear most frequently in dining rooms and gardens.
  • Un homme né Chrétien et François se trouve contraint dans la satyre; les grands sujets lui sont défendus, il les entame quelquefois, et se détourne ensuite sur de petites choses qu'il relève par la beauté de son génie et de son style. Amiel's Journal
  • He (or she, for this god could be tantalizingly androgynous) is said to have come from the East, with his maenads, fauns, satyrs, and wine lunacy.
  • A pendant figure, the executioner, kneels to sharpen the blade that will peel the satyr's skin from his body.
  • Satyrs and nymphs gambol about him harmlessly, and Silenus is a cheerful old soak.
  • Rabelaisian ditty, a gross amazing jest, a chuckle of deep Satyric humour; -- and the monstrous "thickness" of Life, its friendly aplomb and nonchalance, its grotesque irreverence, its shy shrewd common-sense, its tough fibres, and portentous indifference to "distinction"; tumbles us over in the mud -- for all our "aloofness" -- and roars over us, like a romping bull-calf! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
  • These Cultists maintain ties with the modern descendants of the fae and initiate their members through the wild parties of the satyrs .
  • I do, though," says he, and damme, he was gaping after them like a satyr, this well-brought-up, Christian little princeling. The Sky Writer
  • In the context of the Counter-Reformation, there is also a fascinating echo here of the standard format of an altarpiece, with the satyrs and maenads at the foot of the painting taking the place normally occupied by donors.
  • Unfortunately, Sutherland plays a pony-tailed satyr of only limited charm, and Garner, who is a fine comic actor, is never really put to work.
  • The youthful naked satyrs, dancing contentedly with their scantily clad female partners, are no longer shown ithyphallic.
  • He relates how a satyr found pipes discarded by their inventor, Minerva (the goddess Athena in Greek mythology), how the satyr challenged Apollo, and how he was punished as a result.
  • Their common anticipations differed in this, that he had expected comeliness, she the reverse -- an Esau of the cities; and seeing superb manly beauty in the place of the thick-featured sodden satyr of her miscreating fancy, the irresistible was revealed to her on its divinest whirlwind. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • He was a Centaur, or possibly a Gorgon, or maybe even a Satyr. BEHINDLINGS
  • 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
  • Plaster piece molds were made of the structural gap-fills and work was begun on the sectional resin gap-fill of the upper right thigh of the Satyr. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Statue Conservation Report 1
  • There and then the satyr told the traveler to leave at once.
  • 'Sileni' of the old French apothecaries, as described by Rabelais, so decorated with wondrous figures, harpies, satyrs, horned geese and bridled hares, that men were incredulous, and doubted that precious ambergris, musk and gems were to be found within. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • In other words, the diagonalism which we have noticed above in the arrangement of young and old satyrs (vi a, v b, iv: iv¹, v¹ b, vi¹ a), is extended here to the groups themselves. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
  • Part of the problem is that British culture has been so heavily influenced by the satyriasis of the former US president.
  • He is a wizened old nondescript with satyr-like beard, a kind of Thersites, who is understood to have established, from the days of Abdelkader and "for certain reasons," his headquarters at Gafsa, where he sips absinthes past all computation, exercising his wit upon everybody and everything with a fluent and rather diverting pessimism. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
  • A tsunami of books and articles and documentaries now appeared on the subject of the president's satyriasis. What Were They Thinking?
  • Pan his left wing; his colonels and captains were the satyrs, and the word for the day _evoe. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
  • Could Living and dying we feed the fire not have been a line from a satyr 's sermon? SACRAMENT
  • I also liked this piece in the LA Times -- "DSK and France's code of silence" -- about how there must be a happy medium between "the French embrace of satyriasis among political leaders and Americans' puritanical intolerance of sexual impropriety... Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Face of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
  • Try fennel for the Anise Swallowtail; lupine for blues; hollyhocks and borage for the Painted Lady; and grasses for satyrs and skippers.
  • He would afterward think of Nietzsche's aphorism Around the hero, all things turn into tragedy; around the demigod, into a satyr-play. THE TATTOOED GIRL

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