ipal colleges of
Rome, and were in great reputation, a sufficient evidence of the fame of
his worship. Many writers confound the Sylv{=a}ni, Fauni, Satyri, and
Sil{=e}ni, with Pan.

Some monuments represent him as little of stature, with the face of a
man, and the legs and feet of a goat, holding a branch of cypress in his
hand, in token of his regard for Cyparissus, who was transformed into
that tree. The pineapple, a pruning-knife in his hand, a crown coarsely
made, and a dog, are the ordinary attributes of the representations of
this rural deity. He appears sometimes naked, sometimes covered with a
rustic garb which reaches down to his knee.

Sylv{=a}nus, as his name imports, presided over woods, and the fruits
that grew in them; agreeable to which, (in some figures) he has a lap
full of fruit, his pruning-hook in one hand, and a young cypress tree in
the other. Virgil mentions the latter as a distinguishing attribute of
this god: the same poet, on another occasion, describes him as crowned
with wild flowers, and mentions his presiding over the cornfields as
well as the woods.

SATYRI, _or_ SATYRS, a sort of demi-gods, who with the Fauns and
Sylvans, presided over groves and forests under the direction of Pan.
They made part of the _dramatis pers{=o}nae_ in the ancient Greek
tragedies, which gave rise to the species of poetry called satirical.

There is a story that Euph{=e}mus, passing from Caria to the extreme
parts of the ocean, discovered many desert islands, and being forced by
tempestuous weather to land upon one of them, called Satyr{)i}da, he
found inhabitants covered with yellow hair, having tails not much less
than horses. We are likewise told, that in the expedition which Hanno
the Carthaginian made to the parts of Lybia lying beyond Hercules'
pillars, they came to a great bay called the Western Horn, in which was
an island where they could find or see nothing by day-light but woods,
and yet in the night they observed many fires, and heard an incredible
and astonishing noise of drums and trumpets; whence they concluded that
a number of Satyrs abode there.

It is pretended there really were such monsters as the pagans deified
under the name of Satyrs; and one of them, it is said, was brought to
Sylla, having been surprised in his sleep. Sylla ordered him to be
interrogated by people of different countries, to know what language he
spoke; but the Satyr only answered with cries, not unlike those of goats