fabulous history, was king of the Aborigines, or country of the Latins, and succeeded his father Picus, about 1220 B.C. He is said to have instituted a great number of religious ceremonies, and to have kept himself almost always concealed, on which account he was confounded with the god Pan. His children called Fauni, or Fauns, were visionary beings, much like the satyrs, and were usually crowned with pine; but both Faunus and they were only worshipped in Italy, and were wholly unknown to the Greeks.