astrea

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ASTRE'A, noun [Gr. a star.] The goddess of justice. A name sometimes given to the sign virgo. The poets feign that justice quitted heaen, in the golden age, to reside on earth; but becoming weary with the iniquities of men, she return to heaven, and commenced a constellation of stars.
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