To the Muses. […] Another Thracian bard, Thamyris, is said in his presumption to have challenged the Muses to a trial of skill. […] Here they conversed of the affairs of heaven and earth; and as they quaffed the nectar that Hebe poured, Apollo made melody with his lyre, and the Muses sang in responsive strain. […] Muses, Graces, nymphs, and the fair goddesses themselves thronged the rites of the chorus-leading queen. […] (c) The Sirens, muses of the sea and of death, who by their sweet singing enticed seafarers to destruction.