How To Use Silenus In A Sentence
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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
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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
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The hitherto silent island of Naxos has startlingly become populated with fauns and maenads and sileni and old Silenus himself swaying inebriate on his donkey.
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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.
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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,
David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
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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.
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Satyrs and nymphs gambol about him harmlessly, and Silenus is a cheerful old soak.
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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.
2010 February 15 « The BookBanter Blog
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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
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Their chief was called Silenus, a minor deity associated like Hermes and Priapus with fertility.
Pan and Satyrs
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In the earlier rendition, Titian depicts Silenus in the background, asleep and slumped over.
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Here you may see two fine Rubens, a portrait of Philip IV of Spain, and a Silenus with Bacchantes, a great picture of James I of England with his family, painted by some "imitator" of Vandyck, though who it was in Genoa that knew both Vandyck and England is not yet clear; a Ribera, a Reni, a
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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No such figures of Silenus happen to have survived from antiquity, though the idea of ‘a god within’ another statue or image is known from medieval Christian Europe and from Hindu India.
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The entrance to the ecstatic Dionysiac world in the Villa of the Mysteries is marked by Silenus playing a cithara at the edge of a rocky landscape.
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Its leader, an old grotesque-looking fellow, dressed in a priest's vestments -- doubtless a part of the plunder of the night -- and seated on a barrel on wheels, like a Silenus, from which, at their several halts, he harangued his followers, and drank to the 'downfal of the Bourbons,' soon let me into the history of the last twelve hours.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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An old legend has it that King Midas hunted a long time in the woods for the wise Silenus , companion of Dionysus, without being able to catch him.
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German scholars have adopted the doctrine that Marsyas belonged to that mythological group which they designate as "Schlauch-silen" or, as we would say in English, "Wineskin-bearing Silenuses.
Satyricon