Aequitas

The personification of equity, justice, impartiality, fair dealing, particularly from the second century BCE.

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Iconography

As Aequitas Augusti she appeared on coins, holding a cornucopia and scales.

References

Sources

  • Ferguson, John. (1970). The Religions of the Roman Empire. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, p. 73.
  • Graves, R., ed. (1968). New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. New York: Prometheus Press, p. 216.
  • Roscher, W. H. (1965). Ausfuhrliches Lexikon der Greichischen und Romischen Mythologie. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, p. 1, 1:86.