His trial before the celebrated court of Areopagus, for the murder of Hallirhotius, who insulted a daughter of Mars because she slighted his addresses, forms an important epoch in his history. […] Neptune, father of the slain, cited Mars to appear before the tribunal of justice, to answer for the murder of his son. […] We lay our hearts before thee evermore — We sing and we adore!” […] The dead pleaded their different causes before him, and the impartial judge shakes the fatal urn which is filled with the destinies of mankind. […] He was now as anxious to be delivered from this fatal gift, as he was before to receive it, and implored the god to revoke a present so fatal to the recipient.