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How to use Silenus in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Silenus? Here are some examples.

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In the earlier rendition, Titian depicts Silenus in the background, asleep and slumped over.
Satyrs and nymphs gambol about him harmlessly, and Silenus is a cheerful old soak.
The entrance to the ecstatic Dionysiac world in the Villa of the Mysteries is marked by Silenus playing a cithara at the edge of a rocky landscape.
His characteristics evoke those of Silenus or the portrait of an idealized philosopher.
The hitherto silent island of Naxos has startlingly become populated with fauns and maenads and sileni and old Silenus himself swaying inebriate on his donkey.
The gadroons on the underside look very Iranian but the grinning bearded Silenus mask that takes the place of the boss in comparable Iranian pieces is strictly Greek.
A statue of Marsyas as a wise old silenus embodied this positive version of Marsyas in the Forum Romanum.
Examples from Classical Literature
Or sculpture because from the guiltless marble may be wrought a drunken Silenus or a lechering satyr?
Behind his almost Falstaffian mask and laugh of Silenus, he carried a fine, broad, and high intelligence which no one questioned.
For ten days there was feasting and games in the palace in honor of Silenus.
A satyr lifts her vest, while Silenus and other figures look on in admiration.
The beautiful statuette of Silenus, already described, was found in this house.
Comrade Ossipon, nicknamed the Doctor, went out of the Silenus beer-hall.
It was Silenus, a teacher whose fame had gone through all the world.
The thick-set figure of Silenus is about sixteen inches high.
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