The Disgrace of Apollo

Midas had ears of a slow-moving ass. Tmalus ordered Pan to hold his reeds excelled by beauty of Apollo's lyre. The Delian god forbids his stupid ears to hold their native human shape, and drawing them out to a hideous length he fills them with grey hairs. Midas wore a purple head wrap over both which hid his foul disgrace from laughter. But one day a servant, who was chosen to cut his hair with steel, when it was long, saw his disgrace. He did not dare reveal what he had seen, but eager to disclose the secret, dug a shallow hole,. In a low voice told what kind of ears were on his master's