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PIETAS

Pietas, the personnification of piety and devotion to duty. This was one of the most important Roman values. Duty included the duty to perform the proper sacrifices at the proper times to the gods, loyalty and even worship of the emperor as a god, and the duty of a son to his father. Pietas may be shown veiled, and is often shown sacrificing over an altar out of a Patera.


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