单词 | aegipan |
释义 | Aegipann. Classical Mythology. A goat-like creature similar to a satyr. Also: (the name of) a Greek god resembling, and sometimes considered to be identical to, the god Pan (see Pan n.3). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > miscellaneous minotaureOE Tantalusc1369 Aegipan1538 Pandora1581 Briareus1589 Laocoön1601 hippalektryon1822 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Aegipanes, beastes lyke to men, hauynge fete lyke to gotes. 1585 A. Golding tr. P. Mela Worke of Cosmographer iv. 8 Innermost (if ye lyst to beleeue it) the Egypanes, Blemyans, Gamphasants, and Satyres (scarce men, but rather halfe Beastes,) wandring up and downe without house or home. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iii. 139 With bristled curles thicke cloathed in his backe..Some stile him by the name of Ægipan. 1675 T. Shadwell Psyche v. 67 (stage direct.) Enter Bacchus, with the Maenades and Aegipanes. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 82 Spectres, who under the forms of ægipanes and satyrs, came sometimes near the city, and were heard playing upon flutes. 1783 J. Beattie Diss. Moral & Crit. 210 The Egipanes, whose form is the same with that of the God Pan. 1839 E. A. Poe Fall House of Usher in Burton's Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 149 There were passages in Pomponius Mela, about the old African Satyrs and Oegipans, over which Usher would sit dreaming for hours. 1855 J. Bostock & H. T. Riley tr. Pliny Nat. Hist. I. v. i. 378 It is then the scene of the gambols of the Ægipans and the Satyr crew. 1907 D. K. Ranous tr. G. D'Annunzio Flame i. v. 77 The word Viva! rang out from the chorus of Mænads, Satyrs, and Egipans. 1970 E. Tripp Collins Dict. Classical Mythol. 20 Classical writers could not decide whether Ægipan was only another name of Pan or whether he was a different character altogether. 2007 D. Drake Mirror of Worlds 82 At first glimpse, the figure seemed to be wearing a shirt and breeches of goatskin, but that was his own hide: he was a brown-furred aegipan, with hooves instead of feet. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1538 |
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