Pietas
Americannoun
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A modest space with small religious paintings and sketches from the 1840s and ’50s raises the emotional pitch with amazing Lamentations and Pietas, and a Rubenesque sketch for a Crucifix.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2018
It fought for Pompey, and was punished by destruction, but was restored in 33 B.C. as "Pietas Julia"; and in 27 B.C.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
I know whole quarters of the towns of that life where they have never heard of Virtus or Verecundia or Pietas.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
Cicero, without any need, used Pietas and Lentulitas; and Pollio talks of Livy's Patauinitas.'
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
Pietas is therefore a virtue, that of obedience to the will of God as shown in private and public life, and it herein differs from religio, which is not a virtue, but a feeling.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
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