SATYRS, in fabulous history, a part of Bacchus's retinue, represented with disagreeable faces, their heads armed with short horns, with hairy bodies, and with the feet and legs of goats. They are represented by the poets as having their usual residence in the woods and forests, and as being of a wanton and lustful disposition.
Some think the notion of these satyrs might have been derived from the monkeys known at present under the same name. See the article SIMIA.