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Fides thus becomes a goddess, for whom a temple on Capitoline Hill is constructed around 250; but, just as in the case of Deus Fidius, of whom it is disputed whether he is in origin distinct from Jove and who, like Mitra, was a sort of 'personified contract,' here religion does not precede the law but rather follows it.
— Sep 28, 2016 12:46PM
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(the proximity between the magical formula and the oath is attested by the verbhorkizo, to evoke, to exorcize: horkizo se to hagion onoma [I evoke or exorcize the holy name], with the accusative of the divine name exactly as in the oath); the utterance of the name immediately actualizes the correspondence between words and things. Oath and exorcism are the two faces of the "evocation"of being.
— Sep 29, 2016 09:40AM
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Already in the archaic epoch, therefore, when the religious bond was supposed to have been stronger,the oath seems to constitutively imply the possibility of perjury and tobe paradoxically intended--as Loraux suggests--not to impede falsehood but to combat perjury.
— Sep 27, 2016 06:49AM
