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 I must thank my dear friend Manto for this further detail about Pan and Hermes' mothers. Hermes' mother is Maia, the name for a nurse. This is the way in which Penelope addresses her nurse Eurycleia in the Odyssey. The Hymn to Pan avoids naming his mother other than the daughter of Dryops, whence one possible name Dryope. An alternative name, however, is Penelopeia; if one knew this, then the use of the word nurse in the panicking of Pan's mother would refer to Penelopeia as well as Pan's grandmother Maia, in addition to the Odyssey. Thus it is a multilayered joke requiring more knowledge and application of wit than many possess, a true Hellenistic play on words.