Hidden among the wreaths of vines which adorn the jambs are the laughing heads of fauns.
If flowers mate and beget as we do, why not winds and waters, why not gods and nymphs, fauns and fairies?
In the piazza of the palace is a very beautiful fountain, utilized by one of the oldest Roman statues, representing a faun blowing water from a conch-shell.
The faun is represented reclining against the trunk of a tree, partly draped in the spoils of a tiger.
Then you'd believe in nymphs and fauns, and Pan, and all those kind of birds?
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He immediately got together a party of farmers andfaunworkers, with tractors, to stop the gap with bags of soil.
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The risk of spreading the virus to neighbouring fauns through contaminated feeding stuffs or undisturbed slurry is considered to be minimal.
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Although incomes on all other majorfauntypes increased, average farm incomes on specialist fruit and other horticultural holdings fell in 1992–93.
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Tourism is just as much about the marginal hill fauns with an income derived from farmhouse tourism.
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The sixth nymph who had been left isolated centre stage suddenly notices thefaunbehind her and runs off to the left, hands in air.
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Romans believed fauns inspired fear in men traveling in lonely, remote or wild places.
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Most conspicuously, the woman is mourned by afaunrather than her husband.
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The style of the ballet, in which a youngfaunmeets several nymphs, flirts with them and chases them, was deliberately archaic.
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The woodwind brings in staccato chords as the three nymphs return from left and challenge thefaun, who falls back from their advance.
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Thefaunand senior nymph wore golden sandals, the rest had bare white feet with rouged toes.
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The animators found it easier to create entirely digital centaurs and fauns, rather than mix digital legs with real actors.
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Actually moss and lichen alike know that, identifying with time itself, they have becomefaunand putto alike.
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Roman poets often conflated them with the fauns.
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The adjective "ficarius" characterizes the figgy fauns and their counterparts the "dusii" by their swarming, serial acts of fertilization.
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But in the end, thefaunwas altered into a goat-faced creature almost completely made out of earth, moss, vines, and tree bark.
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