Piety and justice
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
god-fearing · justice · justly · piety · piety and justice · piously
in the texts
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus
The moral standards the speaker invokes for the jury's verdict.
If anyone through ignorance thought these men at the time of the former trial to be guileless and inoffensive persons, I wish to read you the depositions regarding them which have been furnished me by those whom they have wronged (for the water in the clock is not sufficient to permit me to tell the whole story in my speech), in order that, when you have considered the case in the light of all the …
Evagoras
Religious and moral rightness used to evaluate ancestry, accession, war, and rule.
In addition, while piety and justice characterized every act of Evagoras, some of the successes of Cyrus were gained impiously:
on the contrary, the Deity took such thought for him that he should honorably assume the throne, that all the preparations which necessarily involved impiety were made by another, while he preserved for Evagoras those means whereby it was possible for him to gain the rule in accordance with piety and justice.
for they thought that, by reason of his kinship with Zeus and his piety, they would most quickly obtain from the gods relief from the woes that afflicted them.