His Chorus were attired like satyrs in goat-skins, to represent the woodland comrades of the god; hence came the name of tragedy or goat-song.
The Satyrs were depicted with pointed goat-ears, and sometimes with sprouting horns and short tails.
Lastly, the association of the Satyrs with the Silenuses, Fauns, and Silvanuses, proves that the Satyrs also were woodland deities.
Satyrs and maenads, chariot-races and such scenes taken over from Greek models are perhaps the commonest.
He raised his voice, and soon a num'rous throng Of tripping satyrscrowded to the song.
Two Elegies in FitzGeoffrey's Satyrsand Epigrames.
In 1618 Drayton contributed two Elegies to Henry FitzGeoffrey's Satyrs and Epigrames.
And fauns and nymphs and satyrsechoed that shout most joyously.
So fair she was that for her dear sake fauns and satyrs forgot to gambol, and sat in the green woods in thoughtful stillness, that they might see her as she passed.
It was the day of the feast of Bacchus, and through the woods poured Bacchus and his Bacchantes, a shameless rout, satyrs capering around them, centaurs neighing aloud.
But Apollo, full of scorn and anger, lashed up his fiery steeds as he each day drove past her, nor deigned for her a glance more gentle than that which he threw on the satyrs as they hid in the dense green foliage of the shadowy woods.
In Roman mythology the fauns and silvani played the same part as Pan and the satyrs in Greece, and the same confusion existed as to whether they were individual or generic.
Hesiod calls the satyrs "a useless and crafty tribe.
They were originally wood-demons, and men represented as satyrs took part in the festivals of Dionysus, the chief of vegetation spirits.
And owls shall dwell there, and satyrs [that is, the hobgoblins, or devils] shall dance there.
This island was once overrun with satyrs and werwolves!
And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Such groups as satyrsand nymphs, Leda and the swan, Pasiphae and the bull, satyrs and she-goats, were abundant.
The cavorting of the nymphs and satyrs became somewhat obscene, but Rafe didn't bother to correct it.
Mauve satyrs danced with rose-pink nymphs and chased them over the yellow-green landscape.
Nevertheless the next day she came back, and the prince beckoned to her again, and all his suite, who weresatyrs like himself, beckoned to her too, till at last she came near.
All the satyrs began beckoning as usual, and she went up to them.
The prince observed that her face betrayed signs of interest, and he redoubled his sighs, and all the othersatyrs made signs and gesticulations to her that she should consent.
Like him, the fauns and satyrs had furry, pointed ears, and little horns that sprouted above their brows; in fact, they were all enough like wild creatures to seem no strangers to anything untamed.
None dared trespass in the home of Diana and her nymphs, not even the riotous fauns and satyrs who were heedless enough to go a-swimming in the river Styx, if they had cared to venture near such a dismal place.
The fauns and satyrswere quite still; and the wild creatures crouched, blinking, under a charm of light that they could not understand.
Again the Maenads became the monstrous hags, the Satyrs or Fauns were demons, and the beautiful Dionysus resolved once more into the hideous and fetid Hircus Nocturnus.
Here we may seesatyrs and bacchantes, young girls and solemn-visaged men with implements of sacrifice; the figures appear in great variety of type and subject.
Here instead of satyrs and bacchantes we find gods and heroes.
Teaching his strains to Dryad maids, While goat-hoof'd satyrs prick'd their ears.
Now the air is sweeter than sweet balm, And satyrs dance about the palm; Now earth with verdure newly dight, Gives perfect signs of her delight: O beauteous queen!
And thence the ruddy Satyrs oft provoke The lighter Fauns to reach thy Ladies' Oak.
He cannot contain his disgust at the contemporary statesmen, sophists who had turned politicians, in various forms of men and animals, appearing, some like lions and centaurs, others like satyrs and monkeys.
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
When the monks went in the morning to fill their pitcher at the spring, they saw the footprints of Satyrs and Aigipans in the sand.
In the evening, when he went to the spring, satyrs and nymphs capered round him, and tried to drag him into their lascivious dances.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satyrs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
