Note 31 — BOOK X. (continued 2)
Rowland Smith translation
.... "Pan Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans."—Lucret. iv. 589.
Pan fell in love with the nymph Pitys; his rival Boreas blew the nymph from a rock and killed her. Pan, unable to save, changed her into a pine tree—πίτυς.