| The first reason involves pietas, an ancient European, which is to say Roman, virtue that teaches us both reverence and gratitude for those on whose shoulders we stand. |
| It is indeed remarkable, that two coins having the same reverse, and the inscription pietas, occur in patin. |
| 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. |
| From about 1500, however, the chief force in English humanism was the concept of pietas literata, or evangelical humanism, associated with Erasmus. |
| Pietas has the religious note which the other words lack, loving dutifulness to gods and home and country. |
