Pietas (Rome ancient)
The pietas is one of the Roman virtues. It is usually translated like the " devoir" or the " devotion, " and it suggests simultaneously the duty with the gods and the duty with the family - in particular with the father (to which is added the duty to the community and the duty towards the State by the analogy between the family and the state, conventional in the ancient world).
The hero Enée of Virgile incarnates this virtue, in particular when it is run away of Troy while carrying his father on his back ( Enéide , delivers II). Under the empire the nickname of Pius (pious) was often associated in the name of the emperors, in particular as from the 2nd century and of Antonin the Piles.
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