(Fauni), among the ancients, were a species of demi-gods inhabiting the forests, called also Sylvans (Sylvani), and differing little from the Satyrs. They delighted more particularly in vineyards, and generally appear as attendants of Bacchus, in the representation of Bacchanalian feasts and processions. The Fauns were represented as half men, half goats, having the horns, ears, feet, and tail of a goat, a very flat nose, and the rest of the figure human. Though the Fauns were considered as demi-gods, yet they were supposed to die after a long life. Arnobius shows that their father or chief, Faunus himself, lived only a hundred and twenty years.

FAUSSIGNY, a province of the duchy of Savoy, in the kingdom of Sardinia, with the title of a barony. It extends over 748 square miles, and contains three cities and seventy-two towns and villages, with 54,520 inhabitants. It is one of those provinces the neutrality of which was fixed by the congress of Vienna.

FAUSTUS. See Fust.

FAVERSHAM. See Feversham.

FAVIGNANA, an island on the west coast of Sicily, in the Mediterranean, named collectively the Formiche. It is situated to the south of Levanzo, is a very fertile spot, and contains 2500 inhabitants, who grow corn, oil, wine, and cotton.

FAVISSÆ, in Antiquity, were, according to Festus and Aulus Gellius, cisterns for containing water. But the favissæ in the capitol at Rome were subterranean cellars, where old statues, broken vessels, and other things used in the temple, were usually laid up. They were much the same with the archives and treasury of modern churches.