Which sentence from the passage best supports the inference that the god of mount tmolus is highly respected?
a) the aged umpire seats himself upon his own mountain, and frees his ears of the incumbering trees.
b) after this, the sacred tmolus turns his face towards the countenance of apollo; his words follow the direction of his face.
c) he then touches the strings with a skilful thumb; charmed by the sweetness of which, tmolus bids pan to hold his reeds in submission to the lyre; and the judgment and decision of the sacred mountain them all.
d) while pan is there boasting of his strains to the charming nymphs, and is warbling a little tune upon the reeds joined with wax, daring to despise the playing of apollo in comparison with his own, he comes to the unequal contest under the arbitration of tmolus.