| Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas. |
| The shocks of the fourth century privileged pietas and divine virtus at the expense of human virtues. |
| Pietas in relationship to land is only possible when it is administered as a gift instead of being subjected to absolute ownership. |
| This is a piece of careful scholarship as well as of pietas. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
