Pan, panis, Called the God of sheepeheardes. He is thought to be Demogorgons sonne, and is thus described, In his forehead he hath hornes like the Sunne beames, a long beard, his face red like the cleare aire, in his brest the starre Nebris, the neather part of his bodie rough, his feete like a Goate, and almay is imagined to laugh. Hee was worshipped especially in Arcadie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Pān, Pānŏs (acc. Pāna), m., = *pa/n, Pan, the god of the woods and of shepherds, the son of Mercury and Penelope, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 56; Hyg. Fab. 224: Pan erat armenti custos, Pan numen equarum, Ov. F. 2, 277: Panos de more Lycaei, Verg. A. 8, 344. He was represented under the form of a goat; hence, semicaper Pan, Ov. M. 14, 515; cf. Sil. 13, 327. His mistress, Syrinx, was transformed, at her request, by the nymphs into a thicket of reeds, from which Pan made the shepherd's pipe (su/rigc), Lucr. 4, 586; Ov. M. 1, 691. He is also said to have fallen in love with Luna, and to have gained her favor by the present of a ram, Verg. G. 3, 391 Serv. In war he was regarded as the producer of sudden, groundless (panic) terrors, Val. Fl. 3, 46 sqq.—He was called at a later period the god of All (to\ pa=n), Macr. S. 1, 22.—II. In plur.: Panes,
gods of the woods and fields resembling Pan
, Ov. H. 4, 171; id. M. 14, 638.—Gen. Panum, Mela, 3, 9, 6.—Acc. Panas, Col. poët. 10, 427.