What is this deceptive and cunning divinity up to this time?

Is he being all Psychopompos again and escorts Pan to the Hades? Maybe it is just a field excursion, gods do not perish. Or has Plutarch the essayist some words to add?

Is he reciting verses of the Hermetica to his disciple?

"It chanced once on a time my mind was meditating on the things that are, my thought was raised to a great height, the senses of my body being held back—just as men are who are weighed down with sleep after a fill of food, or from fatigue of body."...

Hermes conductor of dreams, shepherd of men. Oneiropompus, Poimandres. What are you telling us?

Hermes you silly Kriophoros!, Pan is more of a goat than a ram.

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When the sailor Thamus landed on the shore of Paxi, he proclaimed: "Pan is dead!". And it was his own father, the god Hermes, who dragged him to the Underworld. And together with Pan, politheism died. As this was the first and last time a god has ever perished.