Olympus was an aulos-player, a pupil of Marsyas and equally unfortunate through his music.[1] [Aristophanes is saying:] so just as Olympus invented the joint playing of auloi, let us too bewail likewise and as if with a single voice. In our lamentation let us imitate the joint aulos-playing of Olympus. This Olympus used to compose nomoi for the aulos in Phrygia. He also wrote nomoi of lamentation.