It is an ideal medium with which to recreate the fauns, satyrs and nymphs of the garden. |
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. |
Their lives seemed linked to that of the trees, like those of fauns or Dryads. |
The place was fit for Spenser's Pan, with all his fauns and sylvans. |
Neither fairies nor fauns, dryads nor nymphs of the forest pools, have really passed away from the world. |
He is said to have come from the East, with his maenads, fauns, satyrs, and wine lunacy. |