“where the Muses met Thamyris the Thracian and made an end of his singing, even as he was journeying from Oechalia, from the house of EurytusEuEu the Oechalian: for he vaunted with boasting that he would conquer, were the Muses themselves to sing against him, the daughters of Zeus that beareth the aegis; but they in their wrath maimed him,”