Land, sea, and air were mixed up together; so that the earth was not solid, the sea was not fluid, nor the air transparent. […] No trees waved their leafy branches on the hillsides; no flowers bloomed in the valleys; no grass grew on the plains; no birds flew through the air. […] While Echo answered, ‘Come, sweet air!’” […] “Sweet air, oh come!” […] Neptune, angry at this act of summary justice, cited the God of War to appear before a tribunal held in the open air, on a hill near the newly founded city of Athens.