It was a simple act of pietas which reeks of nobility, but it might also have been a charm to ward off a similar fate. |
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Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas. |
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The first reason involves pietas, an ancient European, which is to say Roman, virtue that teaches us both reverence and gratitude for those on whose shoulders we stand. |
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From about 1500, however, the chief force in English humanism was the concept of pietas literata, or evangelical humanism, associated with Erasmus. |
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On the transpersonal level, it shapes the attitude and behavior of the hasid, 28 i.e. pious dutifulness, humble devotion and pietas. |
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This genre bears an obvious resemblance to notions of pietas, which themselves constitute a utopian community situated in a past so idealized that it is almost fictional. |
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The shocks of the fourth century privileged pietas and divine virtus at the expense of human virtues. |
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The soldiers are depicted with great pietas, they're people who find themselves there because they need a job, they're 'armed unemployed people,' as Carlo Cassòla called them. |
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This is a piece of careful scholarship as well as of pietas. |
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Pietas in relationship to land is only possible when it is administered as a gift instead of being subjected to absolute ownership. |
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