his wife, Salacia bore Neptune three children, the most celebrated being Triton, whose body was half man and half fish.

Aulus Gellius, in 13.23 of his Attic Nights, notes that Roman priests would invoke specific attributes of various gods, "maia Volcani, Salacia Neptuni, hora Quirini, nerio Martis." Forsythe notes that Salacia Neptuni means "effervescence of Neptune".