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JUSTICE
Don’t go, Hermes, until you have told me who comes here, the person with the horns and the shepherd’s pipe and the hairy legs.
HERMES
What! Don’t you know Pan, the most bacchanalian of the servants of Dionysus? He formerly lived on Parthenion,A mountain in Arcadia. but at the time of the approach of Datis by sea and the landing of the barbarians at Marathon, he came unasked to fight on the side of the Athenians; and since then, accepting this cavern under the Acropolis, a little above the Pelasgicon,The cave of Pan, being in the N.W. corner of the Acropolis, can be pointed out (ταύτην) trom the Areopagus, which is close by (ἐκ γειτόνων). For the bit of the prehistoric wall below it (Pelasgicon), see p. 63, note 1, and p. 71. he lives in it, paying the usual tax as a resident alien. Very likely he has seen us near and is coming up to greet us.
PAN
Good day to you, Hermes and Justice.
HERMES
The same to you, Pan, most musical and most frolicsome of all satyrs, and at Athens the most bellicose!
PAN
What business brought you two here, Hermes?
HERMES
She will tell you the whole story; I am going to the Acropolis, to make my proclamation.
JUSTICE
Zeus sent me down, Pan, to empanel juries for the lawsuits. But how do you find things in Athens?
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