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<p>[QUOTE="Bing, post: 2417619, member: 44132"]The stork represented devoted piety in particular, as the Romans believed that it demonstrated family loyalty by returning to the same nest every year, and that it took care of its parents in old age.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pietas fits well with the nature of Metellus Pius. Cicero defined pietas as the virtue "which admonishes us to do our duty to our country or our parents or other blood relations".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bing, post: 2417619, member: 44132"]The stork represented devoted piety in particular, as the Romans believed that it demonstrated family loyalty by returning to the same nest every year, and that it took care of its parents in old age. Pietas fits well with the nature of Metellus Pius. Cicero defined pietas as the virtue "which admonishes us to do our duty to our country or our parents or other blood relations".[/QUOTE]
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