Jupiter, not satisfied with his own waters, calls on his brother Neptune to aid him with his. […] As his head nodded forward on his breast, Mercury with one stroke cut his neck through, and tumbled his head down the rocks. […] With his last breath he calls upon his aged father, his brother, and his fond sisters, upon his beloved Atalanta, and upon his mother, the unknown cause of his fate. […] I observed his dress, his walk, his face. […] He urged in his behalf his descent from Jove and his labors by which he had exceeded the exactions of Juno, his step-mother.