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Fauni

Fauni is a Latin form of Faunus, meaning “rustic god; deity of forest, herdsman; sometimes identified with Pan”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun or genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.15: … enim fore ut exercitus imperatorem equo incitato se in hostem inmittentem persequeretur, id quod evenit. Nam Fauni vocem equidem numquam audivi; tibi, si audivisse te dicis, credam, etsi Faunus omnino quid sit nescio. Non ig …

Vergil, Aeneid 8.314: Haec nemora indigenae fauni nymphaeque tenebant

All forms of Faunus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.