Eo genitus Marsyas cum in artificio patrissaret tibicinii, Phryx cetera et barbarus, vultu ferino, trux, hispidus, inlutibarbus, spinis et pilis obsitus, fertur'pro nefas'cum Apolline certavisse, taeter cum decoro, agrestis cum erudito, belua cum deo.
Though his son Marsyas followed his father in the art of piping, in every other respect he was a Phrygian and a barbarian, with a brutish face, savage and shaggy, with dirty beard, covered with prickly stubble. They say (dreadful thought) that he competed with Apollo, an ugly being versus a lovely one, a rustic versus an expert, an animal versus a god.
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