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IIAN DUO OK OF ARCI12E0L0GY,

DEITIES IN CONNECTION WITH DIONYSUS.

Satyrs, "Fauns.
Their characteristics are limbs powerfully built, but not ennobled
by gymnastics, sometimes flabby, sometimes firm ; snub-nosed,
and otherwise mmobly formed countenances, with pointed goat-like

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EONDAN1N1 FAVN.

ears; sometimes also protuberances on the neck, and in old figures
baldness of the forehead ; the hair bristly and often erect; moreover, a
scanty tail; these are the marks, in very manifold gradations, how-