silenus
IPA: sɪɫˈinʌs
Root Word: Silenus
noun
- (Greek mythology) A companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.
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Examples of "silenus" in Sentences
- The description of Silenus fits to a tee.
- Deep in penury, Silenus had to work as a common laborer.
- Silenus refuses to go the poem is almost done, after all.
- Silenus refers to the satyrs as his children during the play.
- Silenus of course refuses to go the poem is almost done, after all.
- The Shrike takes Silenus and impales him on the Tree of Pain anyway.
- Silenus finds the silence of the city extremely conducive to writing.
- Silenus hid his home and began cryonic hibernation to wait for her return.
- The link between Bacchus and Hercules is confirmed by the figure of Silenus.
- A prominent statue of Marsyas as a wise old silenus stood near the Roman Forum.
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