Religio, religiônis, f. g. Ci. Religion: holinesse: deuotion: godlines: true worshipping of God and holy things. A reuerend dread: a solicitous care and feare: a reuerend feare and doubt of conscience, least he shal offend in things of honestie. Conscience: a scrupulositie of conscience.Ludibria religionum sunt hæc.Liu.These are mocke religions, or these things are a mockerie of God.Prisca religione sacer recessus.Ouid.Diuina religio.Cic.Labefacta cadit religio. Claud. Colere religionem. Ci. To be religious: to serue God truly.Summa religione, cæremoniáque conficere sacra Cereris.Cic.With great deuotion and solemnitie.Omnium religione consecrata.Cic.Eripere religionem è domo pontificis.Cic.Expiare solennes religiones supplicio alicuius. Cice. Manere in religione.Virg.Suscipere cultum Dei, & puram religionem.Cic.Gentes pro suis religionibus bella suscipiunt.Cic.Nations make warre in defence of their religion.Antiqua sub religione tueri populum.Virg.Venire in religionem res aliqua dicitur.Cic.When men beginne to haue a scruple of conscience to doe it. Religio officij. Cicero. The conscience that one hath to do his dutie.Religio.Plin. iun.A sollicitous care and feare.Adhibere religionem, Vide ADHIBEO.Oratio nimia religione attenuata. Ci. With ouermuch care and curiositie. Religio.Cic.A scrupulositie of conscience.Arcti nodi religionum. Lucr. Liber religione animus, Vide LIBER Adiect.Afferre religionem, Vide AFFERO.Cepit quosdam religio, Vide CAPIO.Constringi religione. Curt. Religio est mihi. Tere. I haue a conscience: or I dare not do or say it.Religio mihi non est quo minus hoc faciam. Ci. I make no curiosttie or scruple of conscience, or my cõscience feareth not to doe it.Eximere religionem.Liu.To put him out of doubt of conscience.Exoluere religione. Vide EXOLVO. To putte one from a scrupulosttie of conscience.Religione se exoluere.Liu.To vnburthen his conscience.Haberc religioni.Cic.To be afraide, or to make conscience to do a thing.Impediri religione, Vide IMPEDIO.Incessit religio.Tacit. Vide Incesso in INCEDO. Incutere religionem, Vide INCVTIO.Inducere religionem. Ci. To caste into a feare of conscience, or of Gods displeasure.Infixa animis religio.Liu.Inijcere religionem alicuius rei, Vide INIICIO.Mederi religioni.Cic.Obligare religione vel obstringere.Cic.To put in feare of couscience: to burden ones conscience with a matter.Offerre religionem alicui.Cic.To put in scruple or feare of conscience.Graui sub religione oppressa vira. Lucre. Perfundere animos religione.Liu.To cast men into a deuotion or feare of conscience.Ciuitatem religione soluere.Cic.Tangi religione.Liu.To be mooued with a feare of God or conscience.Vertere in religionem.Liu.To make conscience of a thing, and feare least God woulde be displeased with it. Exemplar antiquæ religionis. C. A patterne of a good and rightfull conscience. Tum intelligetis qua religione dicant.Cic.Then you shal perceiue of what conscience and feare of God they saye it.Testimoniorum religionem & fidem nuquam ista nario coluit. Cic.This nation neuer had any regard or feare of conscience in witnesse bearing or kceping their othe.Religiôs, pen. prod. Adiect. Cic.Deuout: religions: seruing God truely: faithfull: timorous: scruplous: superstitious.Religiosus & Impius, contraria.Cic.Religiosum delubrum. Ci. An holy place of great deuotion.Religiosi dies. Cicero. Dayes of sorrowe and heauinesse for some misaduenture that hathe happened on them.Limina religiosa deorum.Virg.Res religiosissima & Nefas, contraria.Cic.Religiosum est idsacere. Li. There is a conscience in the doing of it.Religiosum habere Pli.To make conscience or to pretend a feare of God to doe a thing. Religiosus.Cic.That hath a good conscience and feare of God.In testimonio religiosi.Cic.Honest and faithfull in bearing witnesse. Religiosus. Ter. Superstitious.Religiosè p. pr. Aduerb. Col. Religiouly: veuoutly: godly: curiously: with a feare of conscience.Religiosissimè colere templum aliquod.Cic.To resort to a temple with great deuotion.Religiosè testimonium dícere. Ci. With a great conscience to beare witnesse. Religiosè commendare. Ci. To commend one with a certaine feare of conscience.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕlĭgĭo (in poetry also rellĭgĭo, to lengthen the first syllable), ōnis, f. [Concerning the etymology of this word, various opinions were prevalent among the ancients. Cicero (N. D. 2, 28, 72) derives it from relĕgere, an etymology favored by the verse cited ap. Gell. 4, 9, 1, religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas; whereas Servius (ad Verg. A. 8, 349), Lactantius (4, 28), Augustine (Retract. 1, 13), al., assume religare as the primitive, and for this derivation Lactantius cites the expression of Lucretius (1, 931; 4, 7): religionum nodis animos exsolvere. Modern etymologists mostly agree with this latter view, assuming as root lig, to bind, whence also lic-tor, lex, and ligare; hence, religio sometimes means the same as obligatio; v. Corss. Aussprache, 1, 444 sq.; cf. Munro ad Lucr. 1, 109.] I.Reverence for God (the gods), the fear of God, connected with a careful pondering of divine things; piety, religion, both pure inward piety and that which is manifested in religious rites and ceremonies; hence the rites and ceremonies, as well as the entire system of religion and worship, the res divinae or sacrae, were frequently called religio or religiones (cf. our use of the word religion): qui omnia, quae ad cultum deorum pertinerent, diligenter retractarent et tamquam relegerent, sunt dicti religiosi ex relegendo, ut elegantes ex elegendo, tamquam a diligendo diligentes, ex intellegendo intellegentes: his enim in verbis omnibus inest vis legendi eadem, quae in religioso, Cic. N. D. 2, 28, 72: religione id est cultu deorum, id. ib. 2, 3, 8: religio est, quae superioris cujusdam naturae (quam divinam vocant) curam caerimoniamque affert, id. Inv. 2, 53, 161: (Pompilius) animos ardentes consuetudine et cupiditate bellandi religionum caeremoniis mitigavit, etc., id. Rep. 2, 14, 26; with which cf.: illa diuturna pax Numae mater huic urbi juris et religionis fuit, id. ib. 5, 2, 3: de auguriis, responsis, religione denique omni, Quint. 12, 2, 21: unde enim pietas? aut a quibus religio?Cic. Rep. 1, 2, 2; cf. id. Leg. 2, 11, 26: aliquem a pietate, religione deducere, id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, 12: horum sententiae omnium non modo superstitionem tollunt, in quā inest timor inanis deorum, sed etiam religionem, quae deorum cultu pio continetur, etc., id. N. D. 1, 42, 117: quis enim istas (Democriti) imagines ... aut cultu aut religione dignas judicare?id. ib. 1, 43, 121; cf.: cum animus cultum deorum et puram religionem susceperit, id. Leg. 1, 23, 60: sacra Cereris summa majores nostri religione confici caerimoniaque voluerunt, id. Balb. 24, 55; cf. id. Leg. 2, 22, 55: in quibus erant omnia, quae sceleri propiora sunt quam religioni, id. Verr. 2, 4, 50, 112: nec vero superstitione tollenda religio tollitur, id. Div. 2, 72, 148; cf. id. Part. 23, 31: medemini religioni sociorum, judices, conservate vestram. Neque enim haec externa vobis est religio (sc. Cereris) neque aliena, etc., id. Verr. 2, 4, 51, 114: istorum religio sacrorum, id. Fl. 28, 69; id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, 12; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 8, 18: religio deorum immortalium, id. Lael. 25, 96; cf.: per deos immortales! eos ipsos, de quorum religione jam diu dicimus, id. Verr. 2, 4, 47, 105: religio divum, Lucr. 6, 1276: mira quaedam totā Siciliā privatim ac publice religio est Cereris Hennensis ... quantam esse religionem convenit eorum, apud quos eam (Cererem) natam esse constat? ... tanta erit enim auctoritas illius religionis, ut, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, 107; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 45, 99: qui (Mercurius) apud eos summā religione coleretur, id. ib. 2, 4, 39, 84; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 39, 85; 2, 4, 44, 96: (simulacrum Dianae) translatum Carthaginem locum tantum hominesque mutarat: religionem quidem pristinam conservabat, id. ib. 2, 4, 33, 72; cf., of the same, id. ib. 2, 4, 35, 78: fanum Junonis tantā religione semper fuit, ut ... semper inviolatum sanctumque fuit,
enjoyed such honor
,
was held in such reverence
, id. ib. 2, 4, 46, 103; 2, 4, 58, 129: hac (panacea) evulsā scrobem repleri vario genere frugum religio est,
is a religious custom
, Plin. 25, 4, 11, 30; cf.: et obrui tales religio est, id. 30, 5, 14, 42: hi (barbari) ignari totius negotii ac religionis,
of religious belief
,
of religion
, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, 77; cf.: venit mihi fani, loci, religionis illius in mentem, id. ib. 2, 4, 50, 110: de religione queri, id. ib. 2, 4, 51, 113.—In late and eccl. Lat., a religious ordinance, ceremony, rite: quae est ista religio?Vulg. Exod. 12, 26: ista est religio victimae, id. Num. 19, 2.—In plur.: expertes religionum omnium, Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 119: qui in bello religionum et consuetudinis jura continent, id. Verr. 2, 4, 55, 122; cf.: a quibus (rebus) etiam oculos cohibere te religionum jura cogebant, id. ib. 2, 4, 45, 101: religiones expiare, id. Mil. 27, 73: ceterae (nationes) pro religionibus suis bella suscipiunt, istae contra omnium religiones, id. Font. 9, 30: Druides religiones interpretantur, religious matters, religion, Caes. B. G. 6, 13: scientia morum ac religionum ejus rei publicae, Quint. 12, 3, 1: civitas religionibus dedita, Plin. Pan. 74, 5: liberum a religionibus matutinum, Col. 6, 2, 3.II.Transf.A. Subject., conscientiousness, scrupulousness arising from religion, religious scruples, scruples of conscience, religious awe, etc. (cf. sanctimonia): refrenatus religione, Lucr. 5, 1114: oppressa gravi sub religione vita, id. 1, 64: sese cum summā religione, tum summo metu legum et judiciorum teneri, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34, 75; cf.: ut eam non metus, non religio contineret, id. ib. 2, 4, 45, 101: memini perturbari exercitum nostrum religione et metu, quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset, id. Rep. 1, 15, 23: tantā religione obstricta tota provincia est, tanta superstitio ex istius facto mentes omnium Siculorum occupavit, ut, etc., id. Verr. 2, 4, 51, 113; cf.: obstrinxisti religione populum Romanum, id. Phil. 2, 33, 83: recitatis litteris oblata religio Cornuto est, etc., id. Fam. 10, 12, 3: ad oblatam aliquam religionem, id. Agr. 1, 2, 5: non recordabantur, quam parvulae saepe causae vel falsae suspicionis vel terroris repentini vel objectae religionis magna detrimenta intulissent, Caes. B. C. 3, 72: obicere religionem, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 40; cf.: inicere religionem alicui, Cic. Caecin. 33, 97: vide ne quid Catulus attulerit religionis, id. de Or. 2, 90, 367: Gracchus cum rem illam in religionem populo venisse sentiret, ad senatum retulit, id. N. D. 2, 4, 10: nec eam rem habuit religioni, id. Div. 1, 35, 77: ut quae religio C. Mario non fuerat, quo minus C. Glauciam praetorem occideret, eā nos religione in privato P. Lentulo puniendo liberaremur, id. Cat. 3, 6, 15: tunc quoque, ne confestim bellum indiceretur, religio obstitit, Liv. 4, 30: cum ibi quoque religio obstaret, ne, etc... augures consulti eam religionem eximere, id. 4, 31: cum plenā religione civitas esset, id. 7, 28; 21, 62: nihil esse mihi, religio'st dicere, Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 16; cf.: ut velut numine aliquo defensa castra oppugnare iterum, religio fuerit, Liv. 2, 62; 6, 27: rivos deducere nulla Religio vetuit (with fas et jura sinunt), Verg. G. 1, 270: nulla mihi Religio est, Hor. S. 1, 9, 71: nullā religione, ut scelus tegat, posse constrin gi, Curt. 6, 7, 7: quosdam religio ceperit ulterius quicquam eo die conandi, Liv. 28, 15; cf.: movendi inde thesauros incussa erat religio, id. 29, 18: religio fuit, denegare nolui, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 71.—In plur.: non demunt animis curas ac religiones Persarum montes, Varr. ap. Non. 379, 11: artis Religionum animum nodis exsolvere, Lucr. 1, 932; 4, 7: religionibus atque minis obsistere vatum, id. 1, 109: plerique novas sibi ex loco religiones fingunt, Caes. B. G. 6, 37: natio est omnis Gallorum admodum dedita religionibus, id. ib. 6, 16: religionibus impediri, id. ib. 5, 6; Auct. B. Alex. 74; Phaedr. 4, 10, 4: plenis religionum animis, prodigia insuper nunciata, Liv. 41, 16: nullus locus non religionum deorumque est plenus, id. 5, 52, 2: pontifices flaminesque neglegentiores publicarum religionum esse, id. 5, 52, 5.—b.Meton. (effect. pro causā), a religious offence, giving rise to scruples of conscience: ut si profectus non esset, nullā tamen mendacii religione obstrictus videretur, Caes. B. C. 1, 11: liberaret religione templum, Liv. 45, 5: se domumque religione exsolvere, id. 5, 23.—In plur.: inexpiabiles religiones in rem publicam inducere, Cic. Phil. 1, 6, 13.—c. In partic.: religio jurisjurandi, or absol., scrupulousness in the fulfilment of an oath, the obligation of an oath, plighted faith: religione jurisjurandi ac metu deorum in testimoniis dicendis commoveri, Cic. Font. 9, 20; so, jurisjurandi, Caes. B. C. 1, 76 fin.; 3, 28; cf.: nec Achaeos religione obstringerent, Liv. 39, 37; Just. 1, 9, 18; 18, 6, 11. — Absol., Caes. B. C. 2, 32: nocturna proelia esse vitanda, quod perterritus miles in civili dissensione timori magis quam religioni consulere consuerit, id. ib. 1, 67: religionem servare, Nep. Ages. 2, 5.—2. In gen., a strict scrupulousness, anxiety, punctiliousness, conscientiousness, exactness, etc.: Atheniensium semper fuit prudens sincerumque judicium, nihil ut possent nisi incorruptum audire et elegans. Eorum religioni cum serviret orator, nullum verbum insolens, nullum odiosum ponere audebat, Cic. Or. 8, 25; cf. id. ib. 11, 36; id. Brut. 82, 283: fide et religione vitae defendi, id. Deiot. 6, 16; cf.: propter fidem et religionem judicis, id. Rosc. Com. 15, 45; and: testimoniorum religionem et fidem, id. Fl. 4, 9: homo sine ullā religione ac fide, Nep. Chabr. 8, 2: sin est in me ratio rei publicae, religio privati officii, etc., Cic. Sull. 3, 10; so, officii, id. Verr. 2, 3, 1, 2: religio in consilio dando, id. Fam. 11, 29, 1: alicujus facta ad antiquae religionis rationem exquirere, id. Verr. 2, 4, 5, 10; so, antiqua, id. Caecin. 10, 28: nefas est religionem decipi judicantis, Amm. 30, 4, 10.—In plur.: judicum religiones, Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 31.—B. Object. 1. Abstr., the holiness, sacredness, sanctity inhering in any religious object (a deity, temple, utensils, etc.; cf. sanctitas): quae (fortissimorum civium mentes) mihi videntur ex hominum vitā ad deorum religionem et sanctimoniam demigrasse, Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 30: propter singularem ejus fani religionem, id. Verr. 2, 4, 44, 96: in sacerdotibus tanta offusa oculis animoque religio, Liv. 2, 40, 3; so, fani, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, 110; id. Inv. 2, 1, 1: sacrarii, id. Verr. 2, 4, 3, 5: templorum, Tac. H. 1, 40: signi, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57, 127: jam tum religio pavidos terrebat agrestes Dira loci, Verg. A. 8, 349.— 2. Concr., an object of religious veneration, a sacred place or thing: uno tempore Agrigentini beneficium Africani (sc. signum Apollinis), religionem domesticam, ornamentum urbis, etc....requirebant, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, 93; cf.: religionem restituere, id. ib. 2, 4, 36, 80: sacrorum omnium et religionum hostis praedoque, id. ib.; cf.: praedo religionum, id. ib. 2, 4, 43, 95: quem tibi deum tantis eorum religionibus violatis auxilio futurum putas?id. ib. 2, 4, 35, 78; cf.: est sceleris, quod religiones maximas violavit, id. ib. 2, 4, 41, 88.— Poet.: quae religio aut quae machina belli, of the Trojan horse, Verg. A. 2, 151.—(b).A system of religious belief, a religion (late Lat.): Christiana,
Christianity
, Eutr. 10, 16 fin.; Leo M. Serm. 66, 2 init.: Christianam religionem absolutam et simplicem anili superstitione confundens, Amm. 21, 16, 18; Lact. 5, 2, 8.