 But the quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most distinctly superior is in my opinion the nature of their religious convictions. I believe that it is the very thing which among other peoples is an object of reproach, I mean superstition, which...  Backgrounds of Early Christianity - 20. oldalszerző: Everett Ferguson - 2003 - 648 oldalKorlátozott előnézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - 1924 - 672 oldal
...opposite in the two cases, it is natural that the steps taken to gain them should also be dissimilar. But the quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most...opinion the nature of their religious convictions. It believes that it is the very thing which among other peoples is an object of reproach, I mean superstition,... | |
 | W. H. C. Frend - 1991 - 288 oldal
...BC "But the quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most distinctly superior ( over the Greeks ) is in my opinion the nature of their religious convictions....peoples is an object of reproach, I mean superstition, which maintains the cohesion of the Roman State.""1 Secondly, Celsus the pagan apologist writing about... | |
 | Wendell John Coats - 1994 - 180 oldal
...And, on the role of oaths among the Romans, here is Polybius in the sixth book of The Histories: But the quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most distinctly superior is ... the nature of their religious convictions . . . which maintains the cohesion of the Roman state... | |
 | David Stone Potter, D. J. Mattingly - 1999 - 372 oldal
...two centuries before Vespasian, the Greek historian Polybius compared the Roman state with others. The quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most...superior is in my opinion the nature of their religious conviction. I believe that it is the very thing that among other peoples is an object of reproach—I... | |
 | C. Seymour - 2000 - 232 oldal
...behavior.45 Polybius praises the Roman religion as a particularly effective use of the noble lie: But the quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most...peoples is an object of reproach, I mean superstition, which maintains the cohesion of the Roman State. These matters are clothed in such pomp and introduced... | |
 | Joseph Giovannoli - 2000 - 391 oldal
...changes went to the core of Roman psychogenes. The Greek historian Polybius (200?-118? BCE) wrote: The quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most distinctly superior is, in my judgment, the nature of its religion. The very thing that among other nations is an object of reproach... | |
 | Richard Johnson - 2001 - 184 oldal
...INTRODUCTION Polybius, writing in the second century BCE, grasped the sociological function of religion. 'The quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most...convictions. I believe that it is the very thing... which maintains the cohesion of the Roman State... For this reason I think, not that the ancients acted rashly... | |
 | Toon Houdt - 2002 - 348 oldal
...crucial passage occurs, that would be referred to again and again throughout the early modern age: But the quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most...peoples is an object of reproach, I mean superstition, which maintains the cohesion of the Roman State. These matters are clothed in such pomp and introduced... | |
 | Paul Ciholas - 2003 - 532 oldal
...the Roman commonwealth [TroXiTeuua] is most distinctly superior [to all other known constitutions] is in my opinion the nature of their religious convictions....peoples is an object of reproach, I mean superstition, which maintains the cohesion of the Roman State.9 But Roman religious practices had to be kept within... | |
 | Benjamin Isaac - 2004 - 596 oldal
...nationesque superavimus. Cicero to some extent echoes Polybius. 6.56.6 (trans. WR Paton, Loeb): "But the quality in which the Roman commonwealth is most...which among other peoples is an object of reproach, 1 mean superstition (SeioiSa^ovia), which maintains the cohesion of the Roman state." Cf. F. Walbank,... | |
| |
