chirones

Updated: May 7, 2025

The Attic poets called him squill-head, and the comic poet Cratinus, in his play Chirones, says; "From Chronos old and faction Is sprung a tyrant dread, And all Olympus calls him The man-compelling head." And again in the play of Nemesis: "Come, hospitable Zeus, with lofty head." Teleclides, too, speaks of him as sitting

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 : (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era)

At the exits of the pipes were placed stones or stone figures, the water taking exit from these figures either by the mouth, private parts or elsewhere, and falling either to the ground or into some stone receptacle such as a basket. Various names were given these statuettes: Marsyae, Satyri, Atlantes, Hermae, Chirones, Silani, Tulii."

Petronius Arbiter - The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes