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Pavor -consternation-dread-was, with Pallor, deified by the Greeks, who in war sought to appease these two terrible goddesses by sacrifices.  The Corinthians consecrated a statue to Pavor, who was also worshipped by the Spartans.  Tullus Hostilius in a battle, in which his soldiers had begun to give way, vowed a temple to Fear and Paleness (Pavor and Pallor), and he won the victory.--This tradition is commemorated on medals of the Hostilia family.  On one of them is a head, with hair standing on end, the face raised, the mouth open, and the countenance troubled.  The other has a long and lean visage, the hair lank and flat, and a fixed look.  It is the true picture of that peculiar ghastliness of expression which great fear produces on the human countenance.--See Pallor in Hostilia family.