where the Muses   encountering Thamyris the Thracian stopped him from singing        as he came from Oichalia and Oichalian Eurytos;        for he boasted that he would prevail, if the very Muses,        daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis, were singing against him,        and these in their anger struck him maimed, and the voice of wonder   they took away, and made him a singer without memory;

The Iliad of Homer Richard Martin and Richmond Lattimore