{"id":47414,"date":"2019-02-09T09:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T08:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/cicero-on-religion-and-superstitions\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:30:46","slug":"cicero-on-religion-and-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/cicero-on-religion-and-superstitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicero on religion and superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/cicero\/\">Cicero<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/\">religion<\/a> and superstitions:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\">\n<p class=\"quote\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">For religion has been distinguished from superstition not only by philosophers but by our 72 ancestors. Persons who spent whole days in prayer and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/suovetaurilia-sacrifice\/\">sacrifice<\/a> to ensure that their children should outlive them were termed \u2018superstitious\u2019 (from superstes, a survivor), and the word later acquired a wider application. Those on the other hand who carefully reviewed and so to speak retraced all the lore of ritual were called \u2018religious\u2019 from relegere (to retrace or re-read), like \u2018elegant\u2019 from eligere (to select), \u2018diligent\u2019 from diligere (to care for), \u2018intelligent\u2019 from intellegere (to understand); for all these words contain the same sense of \u2018picking out\u2019 (legere) that is present in \u2018religious.\u2019a Hence \u2018superstitious\u2019 and \u2018religious\u2019 came to be terms of censure and approval respectively.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40318,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-47414","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/47414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/47414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=47414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}