The Romance of Words. PANIC
The Greek god Pan i whose • ery name means "everything”) bad a great many other things attributed to him beside his original functions as deity of herdsmen and hunters. The ability to cause panic was one of these things His reputation for creating sudden fear arose out of one of the legendary expeditions of the god Bacchus against the Indians. In order to defeat his opponents’ superiority of numbers. Bacchus sought the aid of the woodland god. Pan. Pan advised that the Bacchantine forces should go into the hills at dead of night, and there raise a simultaneous shout. When this was done, the hills reverberated with the sound, so that the Indian hosts imagined themselves to be facing an army much larger 'han their own. Thereupon they were seized with Pau-ic (“Pau” and ’Struck”) and fled.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 93, 14 January 1935, Page 7
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142The Romance of Words. PANIC Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 93, 14 January 1935, Page 7
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