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pietas

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Pietas , translated variously as "duty", "religiosity" or "religious behavior", "loyalty", "devotion", or " filial piety " (English "piety" derives from the Latin), was one of the chief virtues among the ancient Romans . It was the distinguishing virtue ...

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Italy and Sicily, the temple of Pietas on the Campus Martius near the Flaminian Circus was struck by lightning, and badly damaged.

Not only does it offend Pietas, but under the law you must obey the head of your family.

Servian Walls in the vegetable markets: Pietas, Janus, Spes, and Juno Sospita.

He banished the lugubrious death throes of the earlier Pietàs, bathed his two figures in tranquillity.

He felt far behind him the dark, unforgiving Pietàs, their message of love blotted out by blood.