🏛️ Hymn 62 - EQUITY [DIKAIOSUNE]

O Blessed Equity [Dikaiosune], mankind's delight, th' eternal friend of conduct just and right: Abundant, venerable, honor'd maid, to judgments pure, dispensing constant aid, A stable conscience, and an upright mind;

for men unjust, by thee are undermin'd, Whose souls perverse thy bondage ne'er desire, but more untam'd decline thy scourges dire:

Harmonious, friendly power, averse to strife, in peace rejoicing, and a stable life; Lovely, loquacious, of a gentle mind, hating excess, to equal deeds inclin'd:

Wisdom, and virtue of whate'er degree, receive their proper bound alone in thee. Hear, Goddess Equity [Dikaiosune], the deeds destroy of evil men, which human life annoy;

That all may yield to thee of mortal birth, whether supported by the fruits of earth, Or in her kindly fertile bosom found, or in the depths of Marine Jove [Zeus] profound.