May not be uttered. The tribunal there
Is holy, which for Mars when stained with blood,
Jove in old times established ...[144]
... when to the tribunal on the mount
Of Mars I came, one stand I took, and one
The Eldest of the Furies opposite:
The cause was heard touching my mother’s blood,
And Phoebus saved me by his evidence;
Equal, by Pallas numbered, were the votes,
And I from doom of blood victorious freed