_Her. Be it known to all men that we purpose on this seventh day of March to hold a court of justice, and Fortune defend the right! All litigant parties to assemble on Areopagus, where Justice will assign the juries and preside over the trials in person. The juries to be taken from the whole Athenian people; the pay to be sixpence for each case; the number of jurors to vary with the nature of the accusation. Any parties who had commenced legal proceedings and have died in the interim to be sent up by Aeacus. Any party doubting the justice of his sentence may appeal; the appeal to be heard by Zeus._ _Pan_. Talk about noise! how they shout! And what a hurry they are in to get here! See how one hales another up the hill! Here comes Hermes himself. Well, I leave you to your juries and your evidence; you are accustomed to it. I will return to my cave, and there play over one of those amorous ditties with which I love to upbraid Echo. As to rhetoric and law-pleadings, I hear enough of those every day in this very court of Areopagus. _Her_. We had better summon the parties, Justice. _Just_. True. Only look at the crowd, bustling and buzzing about the hilltop like a swarm of wasps! _First Ath_. I’ve got you, curse you. _Second Ath_. Pooh! a trumped-up charge. _Third Ath_. At last! you shall get your deserts this time. _Fourth Ath_. Your villany shall be unmasked. _Fifth Ath_. My jury first, Hermes. _Sixth Ath_. Come along: into court with you, rascal. _Seventh Ath_. You needn’t throttle me. _Just_. Do you know what I think we had better do, Hermes? Put off all the other cases for to-morrow, and only take to-day the charges brought by Arts, Professions, and Philosophies. Pick me out all of that kind. _Her_. Drink _v_. the Academy, _re_ Polemon, kidnapped. _Just_. Seven jurors. _Her_. Porch _v_. Pleasure. Defendant is charged with seducing Dionysius, plaintiff’s admirer. _Just_. Five will do for that. _Her_. Luxury _v_. Virtue, _re_ Aristippus. _Just_. Five again. _Her_. Bank _v_. Diogenes, alleged to have run away from plaintiff’s service. _Just_. Three only. _Her_. Painting _v_. Pyrrho. Desertion from the ranks. _Just_. That will want nine. _Her_. What about these two charges just brought against a rhetorician? _Just_. No, those can stand over; we must work off the arrears first. _Her_. Well, these cases are of just the same kind. They are not old ones, it is true, but they are very like those you have taken, and might fairly be heard with them. _Just_. That looks rather like favouritism, Hermes. However, as you like; only these must be the last; we have got quite enough. What are they? _Her_. Rhetoric _v_. a Syrian [Footnote: i.e. Lucian. See Volume I, Introduction, Section I, Life.], for neglect; Dialogue _v_. the same, for assault. _Just_. And who is this Syrian? There is no name given. _Her_. That is all: the Syrian rhetorician; he can have a jury without having a name.