Pan again sang, and Midas repeated; when, to his surprise, the latter felt, pressing through his hair, a pair of ears, long and shaggy. […] Not long after her visit, some reeds arose in this place; and as the wind passed through them, they repeated, “King Midas has the ears of an ass.” […] Apollo made known his oracles through the medium of a sibyl. […] In spite of the education he received through the medium of this being, however, the love of glory shone forth conspicuously in Bacchus. […] Marsyas was the unfortunate being, and in the history of Apollo may be found the fate he experienced through the veracity of her decree.