Silenus was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. He was the old rustic god of the dance of the wine-press, his name being derived from the words seiô, “to move to and fro,” andlênos, “the wine-trough.”
He was also the god of drunkenness who rode in the train of Dionysus seated on the back of a donkey.
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