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242 SHEEP BREEDING AND
Warbling with me in woods : 'twas mighty Pan
To join with wax the various reeds began.
Pan, the great god of all our subject plains,
Protects and loves the cattle and the sweiins
Nor thou disdain thy tender rosy lip
Deep to indent with such a master's pipe.
Bucol. ii. 28-34.
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Warton's Translation.
Besides the four places in Arcadia, which are referred to in
the above-cited passages of Yirgil, Pausanias informs us of sev-
eral others, in which he saw temples and altars erected to Pan.
He says*, that Mount Meenalus was especially sacred to this
deity, so that those who dwelt in its vicinity asserted, that
they sometimes heard him flaying on the syrinx. A con-
tinual fire burnt there near his temple.
Herodotus gives a very curious account of the introduction
of the worship of Pan into Atticat. He says, that before the
battle of Marathon the Athenian generals sent PhiUppides as
a herald to Sparta. " On his return PhiUppides asserted, that
Pan had appeared to him near Mount Parthenius above Tegea,
had addressed him by name and with a loud voice, and
commanded him to ask the Athenians why they did not pay
any regard to him, a god, who was kind to them, who had
been often useful to them and would be so in future. The
Athenians, believing the statement of Philippides, when they
found theiBselves prosperous, erected a temple to Pan lielow
the Acropolis, and contuiued to propitiate him by annual sacrifices
and by carrying the torch." From various authorities we
know, that this temple was in the cave on the northern side of
the Acropolis below the Propyleeat.
* L. viiL c. 36. 5. and c. 37. 8. t Lib. vi. c. 105.
t Eurip. Jon. 492-504. 937. Pans. i. 28. 4. Stuart's Ant. of Athens. Ilob-
house's Travels, p. 336. Dodwell's Tour, vol. i. p. 304.
In Sir R. Worsley's collection of Antiques at Appledurcombo in the Isle of
Wight is a bas-relief, in which Pan is reclining as if after the chase near the
mouth of this cave. He holds the syrinx in the left hand, a drinking-horn in the
right. A train of worshippers are conducting a ram to the altar within the cave.
See Museum Worsleianum, Lon. 1794. plate 9. In the vestibule of the Univer-
sity Library at Cambridge is a mutilated statue of Pan clothed in a goat-skin
and holding the syrinx in his left hand. This statue was discovered near the
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