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[75] iniusti: so called of course from the Athenian standpoint, since he required such a heavy penalty for the death of one man, his son; but cf. Ov. Her. 10.69 “pater et tellus iusto regnata parenti” , and the references to Minos as appointed because of his justice to judge souls in the lower world, cf.

“ ἔνθ᾽ ἦ τοι Μίνωα ἴδον, Διο ἀγλαὸν υἱόν,
χρύσεον σκῆπτρον ἔχοντα, θεμιστεύοντα νέκυσσιν

”
Hom. Od. 11.568

; Hor. C. 4.7.21 “cum semel occideris et de splendida Minos fecerit arbitria” .

Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.

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