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Pan, n.3

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Gr.: Greek
L: Latin

Middle English Dictionary Entry

Pān n.

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Forms	Pān n.
Etymology	L, fromGr.

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

The Greek god of shepherds and of nature.

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(a1393)GowerCA(Frf 3)5.1007:The loresman of the Schepherdes..Was of Archade and hihte Pan.
(a1393)GowerCA(Frf 3)8.2239:Pan..is the god of kinde.
(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)334b/a:Oon þat hatte pan was y-cleped god of hyrdes..pan haþ cure of schepe and of scheperdes and þe same instrument of pipes hatte pan donum, for pan was fyndere þerof.
(?a1439)Lydg.FP(Bod 263)2.2479:Pan, god off Kynde, with his pipes seuene, Off recorderis fond first the melodies.
c1450(1369)ChaucerBD(Benson-Robinson)512:He had wel nygh lost hys mynde, Thogh Pan, that men clepe god of kynde, Were for hys sorwes never so wroth.
c1500(?a1475)Ass.Gods(Trin-C R.3.19)324:By her sate..The rewde god Pan, of sheperdys the gyde.
c1500(?a1475)Ass.Gods(Trin-C R.3.19)402:Othyr mynstrall had they none, safe Pan gan to carpe Of hys lewde bagpype.

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