Hemans.
This god, so adored and loved in the country, had the power of spreading terror and confusion when he pleased. The Gauls, who under Brennus, invaded Greece, when on the point of pillaging the Temple at Delphi, were seized with a sudden panic and took to flight. This terror was attributed to Pan, and they believed all panics, the cause of which was unknown, were produced by him.
It was by the counsel of Pan, that the Gods at the moment of the assault of Typhon, took the figures of various animals, changing himself into a goat, the skin of which was transported to Heaven, and formed the sign of Capricorn.
"From the forests and highlands,
We come, we come!
From the river-girt islands,
Where the loud waves are dumb,
Listening to my sweet pipings.
The wind in the reeds and the rushes,
The bees in the bells of the lime,