After this they arrived at the Satyr's home, and soon the Satyr put a smoking dish of porridge before him.
"Out you go," said the Satyr. "I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath."
Then the fauns and
satyrs gathered round the Lady, wondering at her beauty, pitying her "fair blubbered face."
In this way, and in sighing and calling on the fauns and
satyrs of the woods and the nymphs of the streams, and Echo, moist and mournful, to answer, console, and hear him, as well as in looking for herbs to sustain him, he passed his time until Sancho's return; and had that been delayed three weeks, as it was three days, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance would have worn such an altered countenance that the mother that bore him would not have known him: and here it will be well to leave him, wrapped up in sighs and verses, to relate how Sancho Panza fared on his mission.
Neptune was already unsubstantial in the twilight, half god, half ghost, and his fountain plashed dreamily to the men and
satyrs who idled together on its marge.
When this happened the ancient world was rolled up like a scroll, and put away until the next day, with all its orators and conspirators, its nymphs and
satyrs, gods and demigods; though sometimes they escaped at night and got into the boy's dreams.
Of the rushing couples there could barely be discerned more than the high lights--the indistinctness shaping them to
satyrs clasping nymphs--a multiplicity of Pans whirling a multiplicity of Syrinxes; Lotis attempting to elude Priapus, and always failing.
Certain individuals pay fortunes for a sliver of a
satyr's hoof, a gryphon's claw, a basilisk's scale, or an angel's wing.
Greek Old Comedy, in late-fifth-century BC Athens, used parody and other means to engage tragedy, the
satyr play, and contemporary lyric in order to enhance the status of the genre as the preeminent discourse on Athenian art, politics, and society, argues Sells.
He was the last living member of the submarine HMS
Satyr - which sank the German U-boat U-987 in 1944 - before his death on April 11 surrounded by his family.
(19) A notable exception is Bouguereau's Nymphs and
Satyr (1873), in which a lone
satyr is being pushed into the water by a group of nymphs.
Painters show shaming acts that they perhaps viewed all too often, as when the inebriated throw up, and fantasise about acts they can never have seen, sometimes in ways that modern museums have chosen to obscure by painting over, as when the painter Douris has that man-horse hybrid, the
satyr, balance a drinking-cup on his erect penis.
Like most Charaxes males, the
Satyr male is known to be territorial and will fight other butterfly species for a tree for a specific area.
