The preferring of Apollo and his instruments to Marsyas and his instruments is not at all strange, I said.
For Socrates produces the same effect with the voice which Marsyas did with the flute.
That you are, and a performer far more wonderful than Marsyas.
I thought of Marsyas, whom the god flayed because he had dared to rival him in song.
And so shall the children of Apollo suffer and share the pain of Marsyas.
To oppose him, as Marsyas says, Philip also sent thither his envoys.
Thus did Marsyas sing for his own undoing, and such was his fall.
It seems to me that you are the young Apollo, and that I am Marsyas listening to you.
From this lake, it is said, spring the Marsyas and the Mæander.
Midas and Apollo are as little cronies as Marsyas and Apollo.
