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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1883883, member: 42773"]"To Dikaiosyne, Fumigation from Frankincense. O blessed Dikaiosyne, mankind’s delight, the eternal friend of conduct just and right: abundant, venerable, honoured maid, to judgements pure dispensing constant aid, and conscience stable, and an upright mind; for men unjust by thee are undermined, whose souls perverse thy bondage never desire, but more untamed decline thy scourges dire. Harmonious, friendly power, averse to strife, in peace rejoicing, and a stable life: lovely, convivial, of a gentle mind, hating excess, to equal deeds inclined: wisdom and virtue, of whatever degree, receive their proper bound alone in thee. Hear, Goddess Dikaiosyne, 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 realms of marine Zeus profound."</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Orphic Hymn 63 to Dicaeosyne (trans. Taylor)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1883883, member: 42773"]"To Dikaiosyne, Fumigation from Frankincense. O blessed Dikaiosyne, mankind’s delight, the eternal friend of conduct just and right: abundant, venerable, honoured maid, to judgements pure dispensing constant aid, and conscience stable, and an upright mind; for men unjust by thee are undermined, whose souls perverse thy bondage never desire, but more untamed decline thy scourges dire. Harmonious, friendly power, averse to strife, in peace rejoicing, and a stable life: lovely, convivial, of a gentle mind, hating excess, to equal deeds inclined: wisdom and virtue, of whatever degree, receive their proper bound alone in thee. Hear, Goddess Dikaiosyne, 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 realms of marine Zeus profound." [I]Orphic Hymn 63 to Dicaeosyne (trans. Taylor)[/I][/QUOTE]
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