Concept

Dike (mythology)

Overview

greek goddess of law and justice, the spirit of moral order and fair judgment

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.

It was Elke's godfather, Jewe Manners, who, in response to Hauke's beseeching, had kept his office as dike overseer.
Theodor Fontane, German Fiction
Names Dike several times; states what Dike is.
Read the chapter · Open in the reader
Three attendants wait upon her to each of whom has been assigned a different mode of inflicting punishment: those who are to be chastised while yet in the body and by means of the body, swift Poena (Punishment) seizes, though in a rather mild way that still leaves behind many things needing expiation; those whose cure is a matter of greater difficulty on account of their vices, the daemon hands over, after death, to…
Charles William Super, Between Heathenism and Christianity
Names Dike twice; opens on Dike.
Read the chapter · Open in the reader
The third dike consisted of a hard, rough, white rock, almost composed of broken crystals of glassy feldspar, with numerous scales of black mica, cemented in a scanty base; there was little in the appearance of this rock, to preclude the idea of its having been a true injected feldspathic dike. The matter composing these three pseudo-dikes, especially the second one, appears to have suffered, like the surrounding…
Charles Darwin, Geological Observations on South America
The chapter “PSEUDO-DIKES.” is titled for Dike; names Dike several times.
Read the chapter · Open in the reader