She wears a crown of towers, as before mentioned. […] Discord flies before them in tattered garments. […] When infants quitted one of their first ornaments, called the Bulla, it was deposited before the feet of these domestic Deities. […] But before the corpse was thus wafted over the river, a tribunal of forty judges assembled, before whom, any, who thought themselves injured by the deceased, might bring forward their accusations. […] It speaks of the giants, as existing in chaos, before the earth.

Night, the moon, and the stars retire before her. […] Her father killed the offender, and he was summoned by Poseidôn before a court of justice for the murder. […] Stone-pillars with pointed heads, placed before the doors of the houses, were the images of the god under this name. […] Hence trials and purifications are set before it, that it may become capable of a higher view of things, and of true desire. […] Being laughed at by Hera and Aphrodite, on account of her green eyes and her swollen cheeks, she went to a fountain on Mount Ida, and played before the liquid mirror.