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Silenus

Silenus · m

Silenus

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Where it lives

Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Fasti 5 · 1.6/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Sīlēnus — Lewis & Short

Sīlēnus, i, m., = *seilhno/s.

I Silenus, the tutor and constant attendant of Bacchus; represented as baldheaded, with short horns and a flat nose, as drunken, lascivious, and mounted on an ass, Hor. A. P. 239; Verg. E. 6, 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 543; id. F. 1, 399; 1, 413; 6, 339; id. M. 11, 90; 11, 99; Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 114; Hyg. Fab. 191.—Plur.: Sīlēni, gods of the woods, satyrs, Cat. 64, 252; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 110; cf. Serv. Verg. E. 6, 14.—

II A Greek historian, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49; Liv. 26, 49; Nep. Hann. 13, 3; Plin. 4, 22, 36, § 120.

Where it came from

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