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The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius

Note 17 — ACHILLES TATIUS,

Rowland Smith translation

Hesiod, "Works and Days," 221.

"Justice.... When mortals violate her sacred laws, When judges hear the bribe and not the cause, Close by her parent god behold her stand, And urge the punishment their sins demand."—Lee.

Ammianus Marcellinus says, B. xxix., "Inconnivens justitiæ oculus; arbiter et vindex perpetuus rerum."

Rarò antecedentem scelestum Descruit pede Pœna claudo.—Hor. Od. iii. II. 31.

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