Note 172 — CHAPTER THREE.
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“The first author of it (general shout) was Pan, Bacchus’s Lieutenant-General in his Indian expedition, where, being encompassed in a valley with an army of enemies, far superior to them in number, he advised the god to order his men in the night to give a general shout, which so surprised the opposite army that they immediately fled from their camp; whence it came to pass that all sudden fears impressed upon men’s spirits without any just reason were called by the Greeks and Romans pannick terrors.”—Potter’s Greece, iii. c. 8.