Namely, 26

NAMELY

eponyms (EP-uh-nimz)

words based on or derived from a person's name.

First Known Use: mid-19^th century

“What’s in a Name?”

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2­­

26: panic: a sudden expression of fear or great concern; also a verb (from Pan, a Greek god of woodlands, pastures, flocks, and shepherds—had legs, horns, and ears of a goat; first known use of word, 1586)

I did not think of Pan at all

What using panic, so

I double-checked (of all the gall!)

And found it’s actual, Yo.

I guess that I must picture some

Scared sheep just running wild?

A wolf? Some other predator

Has got the sheep all riled?

And Pan just watches, sitting like

Some guy out for a tan.

Does music calm the sheep? The wolf?

Those magic pipes of Pan?!

Or does he stir that primal force
That lives in living things?
The passion, rage, and cruelty—
That fly in us like wings?