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justice

fairness under law

Today this word meansTelling right from wrong and giving each their due.

From justitia, derived from Latin jus (law); the word raised into a goddess became Justitia.

The Greeks split the idea in two: Themis for the whole order of norms, Dike for the verdict in each case.

The scale-bearing goddess outside courthouses descends from this lineage.

Worth noting

Her blindfold is not ancient. It first appears in a sixteenth-century engraving, and the leading interpretation is that it began as mockery.

Where it comes from