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Iliad

Book 18, Line 502 by Samuel Butler (English)

but the heralds kept them back, and the elders sat on their seats of stone in a solemn circle, holding the staves which the heralds had put into their hands. Then they rose and each in his turn gave judgment [ dikê ], and there were two measures of gold laid down, to be given to him whose judgment [ dikê ] should be deemed the fairest.

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