| The shocks of the fourth century privileged pietas and divine virtus at the expense of human virtues. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Pietas in relationship to land is only possible when it is administered as a gift instead of being subjected to absolute ownership. |
| Pietas has the religious note which the other words lack, loving dutifulness to gods and home and country. |
| Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas. |
