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Fides \Fi"des\, n. [L., faith.] (Roman Muth.) Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.
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Fides ( Latin: Fidēs) was the goddess of trust and bona fides ( good faith) in Roman paganism. She was one of the original virtues to be considered an actual religious "divinity".
Her temple on the Capitol was where the Roman Senate signed and kept state treaties with foreign countries, and where Fides protected them. The temple can be dated to 254 BCE. The original was said to have been built by Numa Pompilius, and a later building during the consulship of M. Aemilius Scaurus (115 BCE).
She was also worshipped under the name Fides Publica Populi Romani ("Public (or Common) Trust of the Roman People"). She is represented as a young woman crowned with an olive or laurel wreath, holding in her hand a turtle-dove, fruits or grain, or a military ensign. She wears a white veil or stola; her priests wore white clothes, showing her connection to the highest gods of Heaven, Jupiter and Dius Fidius.
Traditionally Rome's second king, Numa Pompilius, was said to have instituted a yearly ceremony devoted to Fides Publica in which the major priests (the three flamines maiores—Dialis, Martialis, and Quirinalis) were to be borne to her temple in a covered arched chariot drawn by two horses on the 1st of October. There they should conduct her services with their heads covered and right hands wrapped up to the fingers to indicate absolute devotion to her and to symbolise trust.
The Greek equivalent of Fides is Pistis.
Fides ( latin: trust) is a guide allowing estimated reliability calculation for electronic components and systems. The reliability prediction is generally expressed in FIT (number of failures for 10 hours) or MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures). This guide provides reliability data for RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety) studies.
Fides or FIDES may refer to:
- Faith
- Fides (deity), goddess of trust in Roman mythology
- Fides (reliability), guide allowing estimated reliability calculation in electronics
- Fides Romanin (born 1934), Italian cross-country skier
- 37 Fides, asteroid in the main belt of Earth's Solar System
- Uberrima fides, legal doctrine governing insurance contracts
- Agenzia Fides, news agency of the Vatican
- FIDES Bank Namibia
- Fonds d'Investissements pour le Developpement Economique et Social, former government agency of colonial-era France
Usage examples of "fides".
Sol, Luna, Tellus, Neptunus, Orcus, Proserpina, in part of moral and social qualities and states, such as Febris, Salus, Mens, Spes, Pudicitia, Pietas, Fides, Concordia, Virtus, Bellona, Victoria, Pax, Libertas, and others.
OLIVARII GOLDSMITH, Poetae, Physici, Historici, Qui nullum fere scribendi genus Non tetigit, Nullum quod tetiqit non ornavit: Sive risus essent movendi, Sive lacrymae, Affectuum potens at lenis dominator: Ingenio sublimis, vividus, versatilis, Oratione grandis, nitidus, venustus: Hoc monumento memoriam coluit Sodalium amor, Amicorum fides, Lectorum veneratio.