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or Marsʹ Hill. The seat of a famous tribunal in Athens; so called because the first cause tried there was that of Mars or Arēs, accused by Neptune of the death of his son Halirrhothʹius.
“Then Panl stood in the midst of Marsʹ Hill.”—Acts xvii. 22.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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