||Exacter of Justice PRAXIDIKE (or Praxidice) was the goddess or
spirit (daimona) of exacting justice. She and her two daughters
Arete (Virtue) and Homonoia (Concord) formed a divine triad
known as the Praxidikai. In the Orphic Hymns Praxidike is
equated with Persephone, Soter with Zeus, and the Praxidikai
with the goddess Erinyes. She was probably also associated with
the daimona Poine (Retribution). PRAXI′DICE (Praxidikê), i. e.
the goddess who carries out the objects of justice, or watches
that justice is done to men. When Menelaus arrived in Laconia,
on his return from Troy, he set up a statue of Praxidice near
Gytheium, not far from the spot where Paris, in carrying off
Helen, had founded a sanctuary of Aphrodite Migonitis (Paus.
iii. 22. § 2). Near Haliartus, in Boeotia, we meet with the
worship of Praxidicae, in the plural (ix. 33. § 2), who were
called daughters of Ogyges, and their names are Alalcomenia,
Thelxinoea, and Auilis (ix. 33. § 4; Suid. s. v.; Steph. Byz. s.
v. Tremilê). Their images consis