satyr
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The name Satyrex combines Satyr, a half-human, half-beast figure from Greek mythology known for exaggerated anatomy, with the Latin word rēx, meaning "king."
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Ph.D. candidates in informatics have worked on a computer program that allows this museum’s visitors to try to reconstruct Praxiteles’ statue of the Resting Satyr, now armless and legless.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2017
The Dancing Satyr, a fourth century bronze discovered off the coast of Sicily by fishermen in 1998.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2012
His Nymph and Satyr, 1909, belongs much more to the world of Hesiod than to the Renaissance vision of antiquity.
From Time Magazine Archive
This elfin creature has well been named the Little Wood Satyr, although under our modern conditions it is often found in fields and along hedgeroads rather than in the woods.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
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