PAN, in Pagan worship, the son of Mercury and Penelope (the wife of Ulysses), who was ravished by that god in the form of a white goat, while she was keeping her father's flocks. He was educated on Mount Menelaus, in Arcadia, by Sime, and the other nymphs, whom he attracted by his music. He afterwards distinguished himself in the war with the giants, when he entangled Typhon in his nets. He attended Bacchus in his Indian expedition; and when the Gauls were about to pillage the temple of Delphos, he struck them with such a sudden consternation by night, that they fled, though