Do not give judgment in one court (of justice) before you have been tried yourself before justice.Compare lviii. Schweig.

If you wish to make your judgments just, listen not to (regard not) any of those who are parties (to the suit), nor to those who plead in it, but listen to justice itself.

You will fail (stumble) least in your judgments, if you yourself fail (stumble) least in your life.

It is better when you judge justly to be blamed un. deservedly by him who has been condemned than when you judge unjustly to be justly blamed by (before) nature.See Schweig.’s note.

As the stone which tests the gold is not at all tested itself by the gold, so it is with him who has the faculty of judging.Schweig. suggests that ὁ λόγος has been omitted before the words ὁ τὸ κριτήριον ἔχων.

See the fragment of Chilo on the stone which tries gold. Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci, ed. 1, p. 568.