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Pan


The Greek god of flocks, forests, meadows, and shepherds. He had the horns and feet of a goat. Pan frolicked about the landscape, playing delightful tunes.	1
‡ Pan’s musical instrument was a set of reed pipes, the “pipes of Pan.”	2
‡ According to legend, Pan was the source of scary noises in the wilderness at night. Fright at these noises was called “panic.”	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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