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subject	book bibliographic info
deorum, as state of nature, pax	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 98, 99
deorum, as, disputatio in utramque partem, cicero, de natura	Hoenig (2018), Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition, 70
deorum, cicero, de natura	Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 61, 70, 71, 72, 73, 93, 94, 108, 119, 178, 223 Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 149
deorum, cicero, marcus tullius, de natura	Hoenig (2018), Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition, 48, 49, 52, 53, 55, 69, 70, 88
deorum, de natura, cicero	Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 40, 122, 222
deorum, diverted, ira	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 23, 45, 46, 99, 112, 119
deorum, ennius, quintus, concilium	Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 231
deorum, epistle to menoeceus, negotium	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 138
deorum, ira	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 28, 29, 33, 44, 45, 64, 68, 77, 80, 83, 89, 92, 95, 97, 98, 99, 102, 109, 111, 115, 125, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 171, 176, 193, 194, 195, 197, 199, 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 213, 215, 240, 267, 272, 288
deorum, pax	Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 73 Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 45, 48, 68, 84, 85, 89, 93, 95, 98, 99, 101, 115, 121, 122, 161, 165, 197, 201, 205, 206, 210, 211, 238, 267, 270, 272, 273, 274 Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 181 Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 152, 162 Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 43, 264, 265 Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 110 Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 81, 113, 203 Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 4, 17, 40, 60, 142, 245, 259, 260, 288, 325, 353 Tabbernee (2007), Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism, 173, 181, 186, 192, 195, 237, 309, 315 de Ste. Croix et al. (2006), Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy, 133, 203, 211
deorum, pax dei, pax	Kahlos (2019), Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450, 17
deorum, peace, pax	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun (2014), The History of Religions School Today : Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts 221
deorum, peripatetics, absent from de natura	Hoenig (2018), Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition, 48, 54
deorum, plato, timaeus, and de natura	Hoenig (2018), Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition, 68, 69
deorum, saturn, as pater	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 197
deorum, senate, responsible for cultus	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 35, 41, 42, 49, 65, 73, 74, 75, 78, 81, 85, 89, 91, 95, 100, 124, 137, 169, 186, 189, 190, 191, 192, 210
deorum, truce with the pax gods	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 27, 51, 73, 93, 129
deorum, vice	Weissenrieder (2016), Borders: Terminologies, Ideologies, and Performances 407

List of validated texts:

4 validated results for "deorum"

1. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • ira deorum • pax deorum • senate, responsible for cultus deorum

Found in books: Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 35, 41, 44, 73, 74, 81, 92; Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 89; Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 203; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 325

2. Tacitus, Annals, 3.58.1, 4.16.4, 13.17.2, 14.22.1-14.22.2, 16.16.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • ira deorum • pax deorum • senate, responsible for cultus deorum

Found in books: Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 157, 161, 163, 186, 192, 194, 201, 215; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 142, 259, 288, 325, 353

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3.58.1 \xa0Meanwhile, after the governorship of Junius Blaesus in Africa had been extended, the Flamen Dialis, Servius Maluginensis, demanded the allotment of Asia to himself. "It was a common fallacy," he insisted, "that the flamens of Jove were not allowed to leave Italy; nor was his own legal status different from that of the flamens of Mars and Quirinus. If, then, they had had provinces allotted them, why was the right withheld from the priests of Jove? There was no national decree to be found on the point â\x80\x94 nothing in the Books of Ceremonies. The pontiffs had often performed the rites of Jove, if the flamen was prevented by sickness or public business. For seventy-five years after the self-murder of Cornelius Merula no one had been appointed in his room, yet the rites had not been interrupted. But if so many years could elapse without a new creation, and without detriment to the cult, how much more easily could he absent himself for twelve months of proconsular authority? Personal rivalries had no doubt in former times led the pontiffs to prohibit his order from visiting the provinces: toâ\x80\x91day, by the grace of Heaven, the chief pontiff was also the chief of men, beyond the reach of jealousy, rancour, or private inclinations." ^4.16.4 \xa0Nearly at the same date, the Caesar spoke on the need of choosing a flamen of Jupiter, to replace the late Servius Maluginensis, and of also passing new legislation. "Three patricians," he pointed out, "children of parents wedded \'by cake and spelt,\' were nominated simultaneously; and on one of them the selection fell. The system was old-fashioned, nor was there now as formerly the requisite supply of candidates, since the habit of marrying by the ancient ritual had been dropped, or was retained in few families." â\x80\x94 Here he offered several explanations of the fact, the principal one being the indifference of both sexes, though there was also a deliberate avoidance of the difficulties of the ceremony itself. â\x80\x94 ".\xa0.\xa0.\xa0and since both the man obtaining this priesthood and the woman passing into the marital control of a flamen were automatically withdrawn from paternal jurisdiction. Consequently, a remedy must be applied either by a senatorial resolution or by special law, precisely as Augustus had modified several relics of the rough old world to suit the needs of the present." It was decided, then, after a discussion of the religious points, that no change should be made in the constitution of the flamenship; but a law was carried, that the flamen\'s wife, though under her husband\'s tutelage in respect of her sacred duties, should otherwise stand upon the same legal footing as any ordinary woman. Maluginensis\' son was elected in the room of his father; and to enhance the dignity of the priests and increase their readiness to perform the ritual of the various cults, two million sesterces were voted to the Virgin Cornelia, who was being appointed to succeed Scantia; while Augusta, whenever she entered the theatre, was to take her place among the seats reserved for the Vestals. < ^13.17.2 \xa0The same night saw the murder of Britannicus and his pyre, the funeral apparatus â\x80\x94 modest enough â\x80\x94 having been provided in advance. Still, his ashes were buried in the Field of Mars, under such a tempest of rain that the crowd believed it to foreshadow the anger of the gods against a crime which, even among men, was condoned by the many who took into account the ancient instances of brotherly hatred and the fact that autocracy knows no partnership. The assertion is made by many contemporary authors that, for days before the murder, the worst of all outrages had been offered by Nero to the boyish years of Britannicus: in which case, it ceases to be possible to regard his death as either premature or cruel, though it was amid the sanctities of the table, without even a respite allowed in which to embrace his sister, and under the eyes of his enemy, that the hurried doom fell on this last scion of the Claudian house, upon whom lust had done its unclean work before the poison. The hastiness of the funeral was vindicated in an edict of the Caesar, who called to mind that "it was a national tradition to withdraw these untimely obsequies from the public gaze and not to detain it by panegyrics and processions. However, now that he had lost the aid of his brother, not only were his remaining hopes centred in the state, but the senate and people themselves must so much the more cherish their prince as the one survivor of a family born to the heights of power." < ^14.22.1 \xa0Meanwhile, a comet blazed into view â\x80\x94 in the opinion of the crowd, an apparition boding change to monarchies. Hence, as though Nero were already dethroned, men began to inquire on whom the next choice should fall; and the name in all mouths was that of Rubellius Plautus, who, on the mother\'s side, drew his nobility from the Julian house. Personally, he cherished the views of an older generation: his bearing was austere, his domestic life being pure and secluded; and the retirement which his fears led him to seek had only brought him an accession of fame. The rumours gained strength from the interpretation â\x80\x94 suggested by equal credulity â\x80\x94 which was placed upon a flash of light. Because, while Nero dined by the Simbruine lakes in the villa known as the Sublaqueum, the banquet had been struck and the table shivered; and because the accident had occurred on the confines of Tibur, the town from which Plautus derived his origin on the father\'s side, a belief spread that he was the candidate marked out by the will of deity; and he found numerous supporters in the class of men who nurse the eager and generally delusive ambition to be the earliest parasites of a new and precarious power. Nero, therefore, perturbed by the reports, drew up a letter to Plautus, advising him "to consult the peace of the capital and extricate himself from the scandal-mongers: he had family estates in Asia, where he could enjoy his youth in safety and quiet." To Asia, accordingly, he retired with his wife Antistia and a\xa0few of his intimate friends. About the same date, Nero\'s passion for extravagance brought him some disrepute and danger: he had entered and swum in the sources of the stream which Quintus Marcius conveyed to Rome; and it was considered that by bathing there he had profaned the sacred waters and the holiness of the site. The divine anger was confirmed by a grave illness which followed. ^14.22.2 \xa0Meanwhile, a comet blazed into view â\x80\x94 in the opinion of the crowd, an apparition boding change to monarchies. Hence, as though Nero were already dethroned, men began to inquire on whom the next choice should fall; and the name in all mouths was that of Rubellius Plautus, who, on the mother\'s side, drew his nobility from the Julian house. Personally, he cherished the views of an older generation: his bearing was austere, his domestic life being pure and secluded; and the retirement which his fears led him to seek had only brought him an accession of fame. The rumours gained strength from the interpretation â\x80\x94 suggested by equal credulity â\x80\x94 which was placed upon a flash of light. Because, while Nero dined by the Simbruine lakes in the villa known as the Sublaqueum, the banquet had been struck and the table shivered; and because the accident had occurred on the confines of Tibur, the town from which Plautus derived his origin on the father\'s side, a belief spread that he was the candidate marked out by the will of deity; and he found numerous supporters in the class of men who nurse the eager and generally delusive ambition to be the earliest parasites of a new and precarious power. Nero, therefore, perturbed by the reports, drew up a letter to Plautus, advising him "to consult the peace of the capital and extricate himself from the scandal-mongers: he had family estates in Asia, where he could enjoy his youth in safety and quiet." To Asia, accordingly, he retired with his wife Antistia and a\xa0few of his intimate friends. About the same date, Nero\'s passion for extravagance brought him some disrepute and danger: he had entered and swum in the sources of the stream which Quintus Marcius conveyed to Rome; and it was considered that by bathing there he had profaned the sacred waters and the holiness of the site. The divine anger was confirmed by a grave illness which followed. < ^16.16.2 \xa0Even had\xa0I been narrating campaigns abroad and lives laid down for the commonwealth, and narrating them with the same uniformity of incident, I\xa0should myself have lost appetite for the task, and I\xa0should expect the tedium of others, repelled by the tale of Roman deaths, honourable perhaps, but tragic and continuous. As it is, this slave-like patience and the profusion of blood wasted at home weary the mind and oppress it with melancholy. The one concession I\xa0would ask from those who shall study these records is that they would permit me not to hate the men who died with so little spirit! It was the anger of Heaven against the Roman realm â\x80\x94 an anger which you cannot, as in the case of beaten armies or captured towns, mention once and for all and proceed upon your way. Let us make this concession to the memory of the nobly born: that, as in the last rites they are distinguished from the vulgar dead, so, when history records their end, each shall receive and keep his special mention. <'' None

3. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • ira deorum • pax deorum

Found in books: Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 158, 171, 202; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 17, 325

4. Anon., Marytrdom of Polycarp, 8.2 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Peace, pax deorum • pax deorum

Found in books: Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun (2014), The History of Religions School Today : Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts 221; Tabbernee (2007), Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism, 173

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8.2 2 And the police captain Herod and his father Niketas met him and removed him into their carriage, and sat by his side trying to persuade him and saying: "But what harm is it to say, `Lord Caesar,\' and to offer sacrifice, and so forth, and to be saved?" But he at first did not answer them, but when they continued he said: "I am not going to do what you counsel me." '' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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