Faunus

American  

[faw-nuhs] / ˈfɔ nəs /

noun

1. an ancient Italian woodland deity, later identified with Pan.

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Faunus British  

/ ˈfɔːnəs /

noun

1. an ancient Italian deity of pastures and forests, later identified with the Greek Pan

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Example Sentences

He felt convinced that Aeneas was the son-in-law Faunus had predicted, and he said as much to the envoys.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Even the mere ethnical names of Latinus and Turnus receive individuality by being introduced in the line of old Italian dynasties, and in direct connexion with Faunus, Picus, and other beings of the native mythology.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

Faunus pelle caprina ex humeris pendente vestitus; pedem super suggestum ignot� figur� figit et infantem genu sustinet.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

From Faunus and the nymph Symethis sprung “Acis, his sire's delight, his mother's pride; “But far to me more dear.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

The whole, too, is written in the rough, unmodulated, Saturnian verse—a sort of irregular iambics, said to have been originally employed by Faunus and the prophets, who delivered their oracles in this measure.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John