Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)

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CXLV. Among the Greeks, Heracles, Dionysus, and Pan are held to be the youngest of the gods. But in Egypt, Pan¹ is the most ancient of these and is one of the eight gods who are said to be the earliest of all; Heracles belongs to the second dynasty (that of the so-called twelve gods); and Dionysus to the third, which came after the twelve. [2] How many years there were between Heracles and the reign of Amasis, I have already shown; Pan is said to be earlier still; the years between Dionysus and Amasis are the fewest, and they are reckoned by the Egyptians at fifteen thousand. [3] The Egyptians claim to be sure of all this, since they have reckoned the years and chronicled them in writing. [4] Now the Dionysus who was called the son of Semele, daughter of Cadmus, was about sixteen hundred years before my time, and Heracles son of Alcmene about nine hundred years; and Pan the son of Penelope (for according to the Greeks Penelope and Hermes were the parents of Pan) was about eight hundred years before me, and thus of a later date than the Trojan war.

¹ The Egyptian Khem.

Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 2 (general note)
book 2, chapter 145 (general note)
book 2, chapter 145, section 2: prosthe
book 2, chapter 145, section 4: Hermeô

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
735: Dionusôi men nun ... kata hexakosia etea kai chilia malista esti es eme: Êrakleï de ... kata einakosia etea: Pani de kata ta oktakosia malista es eme

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
423 [Der eigentliche Dativ.]
433 [a. a) Ana.]

Cross references from Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns:
* [HYMN TO PAN]

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
pan2 [Pan]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
685 [Infinitive in Indirect Discourse.]
807 [Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with tou, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.]

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