and the neighing of horses. This monster had a human body, but the
thighs, legs, and feet of a goat. To the above stories may be added that
of the Satyr who passed the Rubicon in presence of Caesar and his whole
army.

The Satyrs of the ancients were the ministers and attendants of Bacchus.
Their form was not the most inviting; for though their countenances were
human, they had horns on their foreheads, crooked hands, rough and hairy
bodies, feet and legs like a goat's, and tails which resembled those of
horses. The shepherds sacrificed to them the firstlings of their flocks,
but more especially grapes and apples; and they addressed to them songs
in their forests by which they endeavored to conciliate their favor.
When Satyrs arrived at an advanced age they were called Sil{=e}ni.

FAUNI, _or_ FAUNS, a species of demi-gods, inhabiting the forests,
called also _Sylv{=a}ni_. They were sons of Faunus and Fauna, or Fatua,
king and queen of the Latins, and though accounted demi-gods, were
supposed to die after a long life. Arnobius, indeed, has shown that
their father, or chief, lived only one hundred and twenty years. The
Fauns were Roman deities, unknown to the Greeks. The Roman Faunus was
the same with the Greek Pan; and as in the poets we find frequent
mention of _Fauns_, and _Pans_, or _Panes_, in the plural number, most
probable the Fauns were the same with the Pans, and all descended from
one progenitor.

The Romans called them _Fauni_ and _Ficarii_. The denomination _Ficarii_
was not derived from the Latin _ficus_ a _fig_, as some have imagined,
but from _ficus_, _fici_, a sort of fleshy tumor or excrescence growing
on the eyelids and other parts of the body, which the Fauns were
represented as having. They were called Fauni, _a fando_, from
_speaking_, because they were wont to speak and converse with men; an
instance of which is given in the voice that was heard from the wood, in
the battle between the Romans and Etrurians for the restoration of the
Tarquins, and which encouraged the Romans to fight. We are told that the
Fauni were husbandmen, the Satyrs vine-dressers, and the Sylv{=a}ni
those who cut down wood in the forests.

They were represented with horns on their heads, pointed ears, and
crowned with branches of the pine, which was a tree sacred to them,
whilst their lower extremities resembled those of a goat.

Horace makes Faunus the guardian and protector of men of wit, and
Virgil, a god of oracles a