Thick fall the rains; the wind redoubled roars; The god now smites the woods, and now the sounding shores.” […] She had two temples of high celebrity; one at Ephesus, and the other in Chersonesus Taurica (now the Crimea.) […] “She was a nymph, though only now a sound; Yet of her tongue no other use was found, Than now she has; which never could be more, Than to repeat what she had heard before. […] Hearing the moaning but musical sound which was made by the whistling of the wind through them, he made of them pipes, which, from her, he called Syrinx, and which are now familiarly entitled Pandean pipes, or mouth organs. […] Whence the proverbial phrase, “cleansing the Augean stable,” is now applied to a work of immense toil, or bordering on impossibility.