Pietas sentence example

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  • To commemorate her filial affection a temple was dedicated (181 B.C.) by Manius Acilius Glabrio to Pietas in the Forum Holitorium at Rome, on the spot where the young woman had formerly lived.
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  • Pietas is represented on coins as a matron throwing incense on an altar, her attribute being a stork.
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  • Vives (1531), and in all his teaching aimed at the formation of a sapiens atque eloquens pietas.
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