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Definition of Silvanus
1. Noun. (Roman mythology) god of woods and fields and flocks; Pan is the Greek counterpart.
Definition of Silvanus
1. Proper noun. (Roman god) A god of forest. ¹
2. Proper noun. (biblical character) A companion of Paul, also called Silas. ¹
3. Proper noun. ( male given name), more often spelled Sylvanus, but never popular in either form. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silvanus
Literary usage of Silvanus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the by Socrates, Henri de Valois, Edward Walford (1853)
"Silvanus was formerly a rhetorician, and had been brought up in the school of
Troilus the ... This having been done, Silvanus returned to Constantinople, ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the by Socrates, Henri de Valois, Edward Walford (1853)
"This having been done, , Silvanus returned to Constantinople, where he practised
so great austerities, that despising the luxurious refinements of the age, ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the by Socrates, Henri de Valois, Edward Walford (1853)
"This having been done, Silvanus returned to Constantinople, ... While he was
deliberating whom he should ordain for them, Silvanus happened to pay him a ..."
4. Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society by New Hampshire Historical Society (1889)
"Silvanus was at the time a sergeant in Captain Jonathan Whitcomb's company, ...
Silvanus Reed, having inherited it as grandson of the adjutant. ..."
5. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"Silvanus. — Silvanus seems to have sprung into being from the detached and
divinized epithet of either Mars or Faunus, and his domain, true to his name, ..."
6. The Cults of Ostia by Lily Ross Taylor (1913)
"... the identification seems very doubtful.4 Silvanus At Ostia as elsewhere there
was no public temple of Silvanus, but small private shrines in his honor ..."
7. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"The confirmation by Silvanus P. Thompson of my conclusion that the current wave
distortion depends only on the variations in the permeability ..."
8. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the by Socrates, Henri de Valois, Edward Walford (1853)
"Silvanus was formerly a rhetorician, and had been brought up in the school of
Troilus the ... This having been done, Silvanus returned to Constantinople, ..."
9. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the by Socrates, Henri de Valois, Edward Walford (1853)
"This having been done, , Silvanus returned to Constantinople, where he practised
so great austerities, that despising the luxurious refinements of the age, ..."
10. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the by Socrates, Henri de Valois, Edward Walford (1853)
"This having been done, Silvanus returned to Constantinople, ... While he was
deliberating whom he should ordain for them, Silvanus happened to pay him a ..."
11. Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society by New Hampshire Historical Society (1889)
"Silvanus was at the time a sergeant in Captain Jonathan Whitcomb's company, ...
Silvanus Reed, having inherited it as grandson of the adjutant. ..."
12. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"Silvanus. — Silvanus seems to have sprung into being from the detached and
divinized epithet of either Mars or Faunus, and his domain, true to his name, ..."
13. The Cults of Ostia by Lily Ross Taylor (1913)
"... the identification seems very doubtful.4 Silvanus At Ostia as elsewhere there
was no public temple of Silvanus, but small private shrines in his honor ..."
14. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"The confirmation by Silvanus P. Thompson of my conclusion that the current wave
distortion depends only on the variations in the permeability ..."
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