2. Religion—Religious Scruple—Oath

_imbuere_ (_vid._ sect. VII. 7, note _imbuere..._) _pectora

religione_[1]—to inspire with religious feeling, with the fear of God.

_audientium animos religione perfundere_ (Liv. 10. 388)—to fill the

souls of one's audience with devotion.

_religionem ex animis extrahere_ (N. D. 1. 43. 121)—to banish devout

sentiment from the minds of others.

_omnem religionem tollere, delere_—to annihilate all religious feeling.

_religionem labefactare_ (_vid._ sect. V. 7, note _In Latin

metaphor..._)—to shake the foundations of religion.

_religione obstrictos habere multitudinis animos_ (Liv. 6. 1. 10)—to

have power over the people by trading on their religious scruples.

_religionem alicui afferre, inicere, incutere_—to inspire some one

with religious scruples.

_aliquid religioni habere_ or _in religionem vertere_—to make a thing

a matter of conscience, be scrupulous about a thing.

_aliquid in religionem alicui venit_—to make a thing a matter of

conscience, be scrupulous about a thing.

_nulla religio_—absence of scruples, unconscientiousness.

_religionem externam suscipere_—to embrace a strange religion.

_novas religiones instituere_—to introduce a new religion, a new cult.

_bellum pro religionibus susceptum_—a religious war.

_violatas caerimonias inexpiabili religione sancire_ (Tusc. 1. 12.

27)—to invoke an irrevocable curse on the profanation of sacred rites.

_iusiurandum dare alicui_[2]—to swear an oath to a person.

_ex animi mei sententia iuro_—I swear on my conscience.

_iureiurando aliquem astringere_—to bind some one by an oath.

_iureiurando aliquem adigere_—to make some one take an oath.

_iureiurando ac fide se obstringere, ut_—to promise an oath to...

_iureiurando teneri_ (Off. 3. 27. 100)—to be bound by oath.

_iusiurandum (religionem) servare, conservare_—to keep one's oath.

_periurium facere; peierare_—to commit perjury, perjure oneself.

_iusiurandum violare_—to break one's oath.

[1] _religio_ (original meaning probably that which binds down, cf.

_religo, leges, lictor_, etc.) denotes, subjectively, religious

feeling, devotion, fear of God, religious scruple, conscientiousness.

Objectively it means the object of religious fear, a sacred thing or

place, also that which is contrary to the gods' will, a crime, sin,

curse; lastly in an active sense a religious obligation, an oath.

[2] _sacramentum dicere alicui_ and _apud aliquem_ = to take in some

one's presence an oath to the standard, a military oath.

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