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The nymphs, shepherds and Sileni who decorate the big classical landscapes of his middle years are inert and stereotyped.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Sileni were creatures part man and part horse.

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

Some Sileni of the throng sat on benches and hay-trusses by the wall; and one of them recognized her.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas

And after them there marched five troops of asses, on which rode Sileni and Satyri, all wearing crowns.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

I cannot give a more just idea of the two books of satires made by Horace than by comparing them to the statues of the Sileni, to which Alcibiades compares Socrates in the Symposium.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John