Meanings
- Greekpluralplural onlyhuman sciencesA group of minor deities or demigods similar to fauns or satyrs.
With them, in the recess Of lovely caves, well-spying Argos-slayer And the Sileni mix in love.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 4461 more example
And so, while husbands are worshiping at their boyhood shrines, being the lawyers, merchants, or masterminds their parents wanted them to be, their wives, even after fourteen years of marriage and two fine children produced and raised, are still on the search for love - which can come to them only from the centaurs, sileni, satyrs, and other concupiscent incubi of the rout of Pan, either as in the second of the above-recited dreams, or as in our popular, vanilla-frosted temples of the venereal goddess, under the make-up of the latest heroes of the screen.
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12
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