The real meaning of what Pompædius said appears from the context, and from a passage of Valerius Maximus (3.
Related to him are Sancus and Dius Fidius, who represented some primitive conceptions similar to those belonging to his early form, but they did not develop into great gods.
Footnote 1453: See the fragments of Diusand Menander above cited.
Footnote 424: See the fragments of Dius and Menander, preserved by Josephus (Contr.
Footnote 1337: See the fragments of Dius and Menander, who followed the Tyrian historians (Joseph.
Among the Romans Jupiter and Dius Fidius were gods of treaties,[46] and Fides was worshipped as the deity of faithfulness.
Dius Fidius seems originally to have been a spirit of the heaven, and a wielder of the lightning, closely allied to the great Jupiter.
Me dius fidius" will therefore be, "May Jupiter help me!
Dius Fidius to be the same with the Sabine Sancus, or Semo Sancus, and Semo Sancus to be the same with Hercules.
But if we consider diusthe same as deus, we may as well consider dius fidius to be the god Hercules as the god Jupiter, and may thus make medius fidius identical with mehercules, as it probably is.
They had been bribed by Jugurtha to use their influence against Bocchus.
A daughter of Bocchus, too, was married to Jugurtha--Jugurthae filia Bocchi nupserat.
Clōdius Albīnus, governor of Britain at the death of Commodus.
Hercules of the ara maxima may now be considered obsolete; and I may add that my remarks on the supposed connection of Hercules with Genius, Dius Fidius, and Jupiter in the same work, p.
By her was Clau'dius urged on to commit cruelties, which he considered only as wholesome severities; while her crimes became every day more notorious, and exceeded what had ever been in Rome.
Thus died Clau'dius the First, the complicated diseases of whose infancy seemed to have affected and perverted all the faculties of his mind.
Clau'dius spoke next, and broke out into bitter invectives against the people; asserting that it was his opinion that the law should not pass.
Fla'vius Clau'dius being nominated to succeed, was joyfully accepted by all orders of the state, and his title confirmed by the senate and the people.
When Cicero was accused by Clo'dius for having illegally put to death the associates of Cataline, the entire senatorian rank changed their robes to show the deep interest they felt in his fate.
Clau'dius asserted that she was born in his house, of a female slave, who sold her to the wife of Virgin'ius, who had been childless.
Clau'dius generously pardoned him, and Osto'rius was decreed a triumph.
In the beginning of his reign Clau'dius gave the highest hopes of a happy continuance; but he soon began to lessen his care for the public, and to commit to his favourites all the concerns of the empire.
Pompædius Silo, a Marsian, one of the chief instigators of the war, and C.
The oath me-Dius Fidius could not be taken except in the open air.
The worship of Semo Sancus Sanctus Dius Fidius was imported into Rome at a very early period, by the Sabines who first colonized the Quirinal Hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dius" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
