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Faunus   Listen
noun
Faunus  n.  (pl. fauni)  (Myth.) See Faun.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... trained, like his own, on the trunks and branches of trees. Yonder the brook which the rain would swell till it overflowed its margin, and his lazy steward and slaves were fain to bank it up; and above, among a wild jumble of hills, lay the woods where, on the Calends of March, Faunus interposed to save him from the falling tree, and where another miracle preserved him from the attack of the wolf as he strolled along unarmed, singing of the soft voice and sweet smiles of his Lalage! The brook is now nearly dammed up; a wall of close-fitting rough-hewn stones gathers its ...
— Horace • Theodore Martin



Words linked to "Faunus" :   Roman mythology, Roman deity



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