Tmolus

Also known as: sacred Tmolus · Role: umpire · First appears: Fable 95

Life events

• Pan challenges Apollo to a musical contest judged by Tmolus.(Fable95 · 📍 Tmolus)
  • With: Pan Apollo
  • “Pan is so elated with the praises of some Nymphs who hear the music of his pipe, that he presumes to challenge Apollo to play with him.”
• Tmolus declares Apollo’s music superior, pleasing everyone except Midas.(Fable95 · 📍 Tmolus)
  • With: Apollo Pan Midas
  • “charmed by the sweetness of which, Tmolus bids Pan to hold his reeds in submission to the lyre; and the judgment and decision of the sacred mountain pleases them all. Yet it is blamed, and is called unjust by the voice of Midas alone.”

Fable 95

• with Pan (Tmolus serves as umpire in Pan's contest.) “While Pan is there boasting of his strains to the charming Nymphs, and is warbling a little tune upon the reeds joined with wax, daring to despise the playing of Apollo in comparison with his own, he comes to the unequal contest under the arbitration of Tmolus.”
• with Apollo (Tmolus serves as umpire in Apollo's contest.) “While Pan is there boasting of his strains to the charming Nymphs, and is warbling a little tune upon the reeds joined with wax, daring to despise the playing of Apollo in comparison with his own, he comes to the unequal contest under the arbitration of Tmolus.”
• with Midas (Midas rejects Tmolus's judgment.) “The mountain God, Tmolus, who is chosen umpire of the contest, decides in favour of Apollo, and the whole company approve of his judgment except Midas”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.