🏛️ Hymn 61 - JUSTICE [DIKE]

The piercing eye of Justice [Dike] bright, I sing, plac'd by the throne of heav'n's almighty king [Zeus], Perceiving thence, with vision unconfin'd, the life and conduct of the human kind To thee, revenge and punishment belong, chastising ev'ry deed, unjust and wrong;

Whose pow'r alone, dissimilars can join, and from th' equality of truth combine: For all the ill, persuasion can inspire, when urging bad designs, with counsel dire, 'Tis thine alone to punish;

with the race of lawless passions, and incentives base; For thou art ever to the good inclin'd, and hostile to the men of evil mind.

Come, all-propitious, and thy suppliant hear, when Fate's predestin'd, final hour draws near.