The Death of Jupiter

"With impious hate murdered him, while his outstretched hands implored their mercy," he wrote. "The mournful birds, the stricken animals, the hard stones and the weeping woods ... all these that often had followed your inspiring voice bewailed your death." He was killed by oxen armed with threatening horns as they turned up the soil with plowshares in a field nearby. 'They say sad rivers swelled with their own tears, nyads and dreads with disheveled hair, wore garments of dark colour'