Among their possessions, the Muses and Apollo had a winged horse, named Pegasus. […] This was a female, named also a Pythoness, on account of her seat being formed of massive gold resembling the skin of the serpent Python. […] In Hell she is named Hecate and revered by magicians. […] When Bacchus, for thus was he ‌named, had grown out of their guidance, Silenus became his preceptor and foster-father. […] His priests, named Salii, carried small bucklers, supposed to be sacred, and to have fallen from the skies.