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• FAUNUS (i.e. the "kindly," from Lat. favere, or the " speaker," from fari)

FAUNUS (i.e. the "kindly," from See also:

• LAT

Lat. favere, or the " See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker," from fari)  , an old See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian rural deity, the bestower of fruitfulness on See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields and See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle . As such he is akin to or identical with Inuus (" fructifier ") and Lupercus (see See also:

• LUPERCALIA

LUPERCALIA) . See also:

• FAUNUS (i.e. the "kindly," from Lat. favere, or the " speaker," from fari)

Faunus also revealed the secrets of the future by See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange sounds from the See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods, or by visions communicated to those who slept within his precincts in the skin of sacrificed See also:

• LAMBS

lambs; he was then called Fatuus, and with him was associated his wife or daughter Fatua . Under See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence he was identified with See also:

• PAN (" pasturer ")
• PAN (common in various forms to many Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Pfanne; it is generally taken to be an early adaptation in a shortened form of Lat. patina, shallow bowl or dish, from patere, to lie open)

Pan, and just as there was supposed to be a number of Panisci, so the existence of many Fauni was assumed—misshapen and mischievous goblins of the See also:

• FOREST

forest, with pointed ears, tails and See also:

• GOAT (a common Teut. word; O. Eng. gat, Goth. gaits, Mod. Ger. Geiss, cognate with Lat. haedus, a kid)

goat's feet, who loved to torment sleepers with hideous nightmares . In poetical tradition Faunus is an old See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• LATIUM

Latium, the son of See also:

• PICUS

Picus (See also:

• MARS
• MARS (MAYORS, MARMAR, MARSPITER GA MASPITER)
• MARS, MLLE [ANNE FRANCOISE HYPPOLYTE BOUTET] (1779-1847)

Mars) and See also:

• FATHER

father of See also:

• LATINUS

Latinus, the teacher of See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture and cattle-breeding, and the introducer of the religious See also:

• SYSTEM

system of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, honoured after See also:

• DEATH

death as a tutelary divinity . Two festivals called Faunalia were celebrated in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Faunus, one on the 13th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February in his See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple on the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island in the See also:

• TIBER (anc. Tiberis; Ital. Tevere)

Tiber, the other in the country on the 5th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December (See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, See also:

• FASTI

Fasti, ii . 193; See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, Odes, iii . 18. so) . At these goats were sacrificed to him with libations of See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine and See also:

• MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk, and he was imploredtobepropitious to fields and flocks . The peasants and slaves at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time amused themselves with dancing in the meadows .