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sătyrus , i, m., = σάτυρος.
I. A kind of ape, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24; 5, 8, 8, § 44; 10, 72, 93, § 199; Sol. 27 fin.
II. A Satyr, one of the satyri, a kind of wood-deities resembling apes, with two goat's feet, and very lascivious; sing., Ov. M. 6, 110; 6, 383; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 125; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 135; Sil. 3 103. —Commonly plur.: “capripedes Satyros,Lucr. 4, 580; Hor. C. 2, 19, 4; 1, 1, 31; id. Ep. 1, 19, 4; id. A. P. 221 sq.; Ov. F. 1, 397; id. M. 1, 193; 1, 692; 4, 25; Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 43 al.
B. Like the Gr. Σάτυροι, Greek satiric plays: “satyrorum scriptor,Hor. A. P. 235: “satyri dicaces,id. ib. 226: “protervi,id. ib. 233.
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    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.4.135
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.193
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.110
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 221
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 235
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.580
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.44
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 7.24
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 3.17
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
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