Crossword-Solution: PAVOR 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

When she announced, on a fine afternoon, that we were going to Pavor and Barton, I was always agog to start.

Pavor was, even then, decayed almost to extinction, but Barton preserved its desultory street of ancient, detached cottages.

Hippocrates and Hierophilus place it in the ventricle of the brain; Democritus and Aristotle throughout the whole body;-- Ut bona sæpe valetudo cum dicitur esse Corporis, et non est tamen hæc pars ulla ralentis; “As when the body’s health they do it call, When of a sound man, that’s no part at all.” Epicurus in the stomach; Hic exsultat enim pavor ac metus; Hæc loca circum Lætitiæ mulcent.

Thus, what are men doing but extending not the limits of their knowledge but of their ignorance, when they deduce, with Varro, 'pavo' from 'pavor,' because of the fear which the harsh shriek of the peacock awakens; or with Pliny, 'panthera' from [Greek: pan thaerion], because properties of all beasts meet in the panther; or persuade themselves that 'formica,' the ant, is 'ferens micas,' the grain-bearer.

For the night terrors with hallucinations (_pavor nocturnus_) frequently found in children, I would unhesitatingly give the same explanation.