Caput X (opening)

…and so they shall flee as though from the sword: “they shall fall when none pursues; and they shall fall one upon another, as men fleeing from battles — none of you shall dare to resist” [the words of Leviticus 26:36–37]. And [see likewise] Judges 7; 4 Kings [2 Kings] 19; 2 Chronicles 20. And, as Lipsius [relates] above: “When Bacchus,” he says, “on his Indian expedition, was in some hollow valley with his forces, and an infinite multitude of the enemy [pressed] from the opposite side, and some had grown afraid in spirit, then Pan advised that at night the army of Dionysus should raise a very great clamor; which, when it was caught up and amplified by both the rock and the valley, [caused] the terrified enemy to give themselves to flight.” Hence it came about that terrors of this kind are called “Panic.”