Timotheus was so excellently skilled in music, that, one day, when he
played and sung a song, composed in honour of Pallas, in the presence
of Alexander the Great, the prince, as one transported with gallantry
and the martial humour of the air, started up, and being stirred in
every part, called for his armour, and was going to attack his guests;
when the musician immediately changed into more sedate and calmer
notes, sounding, as it were, a retreat; the impetuous prince was
calmed, and sat quiet and still.