
SINE IUSTTIA [=IUSTITIA]
,
CONFUSIO.
WITHOUT JUSTICE, CONFUSION
Si terrae Coelum se misceat: & mare coelo.
Sol Erebo.[1] Tenebris lumina, Terra Polo.
Quattuor & Mundi mixtim primordia pugnent.
Arida cum siccis, algida cum calidis.[2]
In Chaos antiquum omnia denique confundantur:
Ut cųm ignotus adhuc mens Deus orbis erat.
Est Mundanarum talis confusio rerum.
Quo Regina latet Tempore Iustitia.
If the sky should mingle with the earth and the sea with the sky, the Sun and Erebus, light and shade, earth and heaven, then the four constituent elements of the universe would fight - hot and dry, cold and wet. All things would be finally confounded into the Chaos of old, when the world did not yet know the mind of God. When Queen Justice is absent in hiding, a similar confusion reigns in earthly things.
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- Confusion, Obscurity; 'Confusione' (Ripa) [52DD21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Disorder, Confusion, Derangement, Disorganization, Chaos [51DD1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Justice; 'Forza alla giustitia sottoposta', 'Giustitia', 'Giustitia retta', 'Giustitia rigorosa', 'Impietā e violenza soggetta alla giustitia', (Ripa) [59C2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- moon as celestial body [24B] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rain [26B] Search | Browse Iconclass
- stars in the firmament [24F2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sun as celestial body [24A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- winds [26C] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Deity, God (in general) ~ Christian religion [11A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Hades, the Underworld [93E] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Justice; 'Forza alla giustitia sottoposta', 'Giustitia', 'Giustitia retta', 'Giustitia rigorosa', 'Impietā e violenza soggetta alla giustitia', (Ripa) [59C2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other primeval deities (with NAME) [91A14(EREBUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ravine, chasm, abyss, canyon [25H1122] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the four elements, and ether, the fifth element [21] Search | Browse Iconclass
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