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How to use pietas in a sentence

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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.
Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas.
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.
From about 1500, however, the chief force in English humanism was the concept of pietas literata, or evangelical humanism, associated with Erasmus.
On the transpersonal level, it shapes the attitude and behavior of the hasid, 28 i.e. pious dutifulness, humble devotion and pietas.
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.
The shocks of the fourth century privileged pietas and divine virtus at the expense of human virtues.
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.
This is a piece of careful scholarship as well as of pietas.
Pietas in relationship to land is only possible when it is administered as a gift instead of being subjected to absolute ownership.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is indeed remarkable, that two coins having the same reverse, and the inscription pietas, occur in patin.
Thus the Roman Poets consider their State in course of ruin because its prisci mores and Pietas were failing.
The words that suggest most clearly the Roman attitude towards what we call charity are liberalitas, beneficentia and Pietas.
Pietas has the religious note which the other words lack, loving dutifulness to gods and home and country.
Nor can there be any need to show that the name Pola is not a contraction of Pietas Julia.
This Pietas Tewkesburiensis still survives, as flowers are annually laid upon the site of the grave.
See the following extract from the colloquy of Erasmus, Pietas puerilis, edition Argent.
Pietas is Virgil's word for religion, as it had been Cicero's in his more exalted moments.
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