\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b \cf7 Trial of Ares\par
\b0 While the nymph\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht10119 Alcippe\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 was drawing water from the spring of
Asclepius in Athens, she was roughly accosted by\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht10801 Halirrothius\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 \cf7 who, like his father\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht5 Poseidon\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , was direct when it came to courting women. But the victim's father, the touc
hy\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht4 Ares\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , was equally arrogant and decided to wipe out the offense with blood. Hallirhothius' body was still warm when Poseidon arrived brandishing his trident but, since the culprit was an immortal, summoned him befo
re the tribunal of the gods, by which he too had been judged during the \b \cf4 \ATXht1008 dispute with Athena\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 \cf7 over the possession of Attica. The trial was held on the hill in front of the Acropolis in Athens, which was henceforth k
nown as the Areopagus (hill of Ares) and used by the Athenians to judge crimes of a religious nature. The gods acquitted Ares and Poseidon, who had many other children, and chose, for once, to let the matter rest.
