A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

THAMUS,

a Pilot whose Ship one Even∣ing sailing near unto certain Islands in the Egean Sea, they were suddenly becalmed, when a Voice was heard which came from the Islands, and called Thamus; he suffered himself to be cal∣led twice without answering, but answered the third time: Then the Voice commanded him, that when he arrived at such a Place, to cry that the Great Pan was dead: All the Men in the Ship were much frightened therewith; they con∣sulted whether Thamus ought to obey the Voice, but Thamus concluded that if when they were come to the Place appointed they had Wind e∣nough to pass by, he should say nothing, but if they were there becalmed, he must pursue the Order he had received: They were surprized with a Calm in the said Place, when presently he cried out aloud that Great Pan was dead; he had scarce done speaking, when they heard Groans and Complaints round about them, as if a great many People were surprized at and af∣flicted with this News: All the People in the Ship were Witnesses of what happened; the Noise whereof in a short time reached as far as Rome; and the Emperor Tiberius being desirous to see Thamus himself, appointed a Meeting of all those learned in Pagan Theology, that he might know of them who this Great Pan was, and they concluded he was Mercury and Penelope's Son. Thus it is Cleombrotus relates this History in a Dialogue where Plutarch treats of Oracles; and he says, he had it of Epitherses his Grammar Master, who was in Thamus his Ship when the Thing happened. We may say this Great Pan who died in Tiberius his Reign was Christ, whose Death caused a general Grief and Consternation among the Demons, who could not now as formerly exercise their Tiranny over Men.