Et circumtextum croceo velamen acantho
Ornatus Argivae Helenæ.”—Æneid I. 651.
evidently modelled on Odys. xix. 225.
“May Power and Justice aid thee, mighty Twain.”
The reader will note this theological triad as very characteristic of the Greeks. Power (Κράτος) is coupled with Jove, as being his most peculiar physical attribute. Personified, this attribute appears in the Prometheus; and in Homer,
“Jove, the lofty-pealing Thunderer, and in power the chiefest god,”
answers to the opening words of our own solemn addresses to the Supreme Being—Almighty God. Justice, again, belongs to Jove as the highest moral attribute; and this conjunction we find also very distinctly expressed in Homer.
“By Olympian Jove I charge you, and by Themis who presides
O’er the assemblies of the people.”—Odyssey II. 68.