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What is a satyr?

What is a satyr? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Greek) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.
  2. (Roman) A faun.
  3. A lecherous man.
  4. Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
  5. (obsolete) The orangutan.
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As befits the son of a satyr, Midas was a king who loved the pleasures of this world.
Unfortunately, Sutherland plays a pony-tailed satyr of only limited charm, and Garner, who is a fine comic actor, is never really put to work.
Her confrontation of the insatiable satyr while he has his hand up another honey's haunches is the sole moment of real emotion in what is otherwise a movie of surfaces.
The image of the satyr turns him into a buffoon, a lubricious figure, a familiar character in satyric dramas.
And to clench matters, many depictions of John actually show him with the lower torso of a satyr, cloven hooves and all!
At the festival itself, some of the men wear small goat horns attached to their heads, giving them a rather satyr like appearance.

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