ABSTRACT
SOMETHING not unlike this is written about the music of Father Bacchus. When he was a boy, Tyrrhenian sailors were supposed to give him passage and return him to the nymphs who had been his nurses, but they intended to destroy him in the hope of booty. When he understood this he ordered his companions to sing as an ensemble, and the story goes that the Tyrrhenian mariners were so diverted by their song that they even began to dance, and in gambolling about too energetically threw themselves into the sea.
