[380] LIVE HARES. See Mart. _Ep._ I, 6, (“the captured hare returning often in safety from the kindly tooth”) 14 (“and running at large through the open jaws,”) 22, 104. [381] GREAT PAN HIMSELF MUST BLESS THEM. Pan, son of Hermes and a daughter of Dryops, or of Zeus and the Arcadian nymph Callisto, etc., etc., is a divinity of the fields and forests. Cneius Afranius here uses the adjective “great” in the sense of “powerful,” “influential,”--corresponding with the hyperbolical tone of the rest of his speech. The totally different expression, “the great Pan,” in the sense of a symbolical appellation of the universe, originates in a verbal error, according to which the word Pan is derived from the Greek πᾶς “all” “the whole” while it really comes from πάω (I graze.) [382] MY SWEET EROTION. A child of this name, who died in early youth, is mentioned by Martial, _Ep._ V, 34, 37, and X, 61. _Ep._ V, 34. “Ye parents Fronto and Flaccilla here, To you do I commend my girl, my dear, Lest pale Erotion tremble at the shades, And the foul Dog of Hell’s prodigious heads. Her age fulfilling just six winters was, Had she but known so many days to pass. ’Mongst you, old patrons, may she sport and play, And with her lisping tongue my name oft say. May the smooth turf her soft bones hide, and be O earth, as light to her, as she to thee!” FLETCHER. _Ep._ X, 61. “Underneath this greedy stone Lies little sweet Erotion; Whom the Fates, with hearts as cold, Nipp’d away at six years old. Thou, whoever thou mayst be, That hast this small field after me, Let the yearly rites be paid To her little slender shade; So shall no disease or jar, Hurt thy house, or chill thy Lar; But this tomb be here alone The only melancholy stone.” LEIGH HUNT. [383] PHILOSOPHER OF SINOPE. The well-known Cynic philosopher Diogenes, born at Sinope on the Black Sea, 404. B.C. [384] FAUN (from _faveo_--to be favorable). A god of the fields and woods, akin to the Greek woodland deity, Pan. [385] DRYAD. The embodied life-principle of the tree, a tree-nymph. [386] PANNONIAN LYNX. Pannonia, now Hungary. Lynxes were also imported from Gaul. [387] WHERE YOU, CAIUS, ARE, THERE WILL I, CAIA, BE. An ancient formula, in which the bride vowed faith and obedience to the bridegroom. [388] ZEUXIS of Heracleia in Greece, a famous artist, who lived about 397 B.C. His contest with Parrhasius, in which he painted grapes so deceptive, that they lured the birds, is well known.