(1) Preterea, mundus optime dispositus est cum iustitia in eo potissima est. Unde Virgilius commendare volens illud seculum quod suo tempore surgere videbatur, in suis Buccolicis cantabat: Iam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna. 'Virgo' nanque vocabatur iustitia, quam etiam 'Astream' vocabant; 'Saturnia regna' dicebant optima tempora, que etiam 'aurea' nuncupabant.
| (1) Furthermore, the world is ordered in the best possible way when justice is at its strongest in it. Thus Virgil, wishing to praise the age which seemed to be emerging in his day, sang in his Eclogues: "Now the Virgin returns, the reign of Saturn returns". For "the virgin" was their name for justice, whom they also called "Astrea"; the "reign of Saturn" was their name for the best of times, which they also called "golden". |
