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Pax Deorum may refer to: "Pax Deorum", a song from The Memory of Trees, an album by Enya "Pax Deorum", a cover of the aforementioned song from the album Maiden of Mysteries: The Music of Enya, by the Taliesin Orchestra; Pax deorum, a Latin phrase meaning "peace of the gods"
Pax was a relatively unrecognised deity during the early republic as she had little to do with the Roman philosophy. [2] However, during this time the Greek city states had been worshipping Pax’s equivalent - Eirene since the early bronze age where the worship of her peaked during the rise of the Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian war. [1]
Pax, though usually translated into English as "peace," was a compact, bargain, or agreement. [382] In religious usage, the harmony or accord between the divine and human was the pax deorum or pax divom ("the peace of the gods" or "divine peace"). [383] Pax deorum was only given in return for correct religious practice.
pax Dei: peace of God: Used in the Peace and Truce of God movement in 10th-century France Pax Deorum: Peace of the gods: Like the vast majority of inhabitants of the ancient world, the Romans practiced pagan rituals, believing it important to achieve a state of Pax Deorum (The Peace of the gods) instead of Ira Deorum (The Wrath of the gods ...
Constantine successfully balanced his own role as an instrument of the pax deorum with the power of the Christian priesthoods in determining what was (in traditional Roman terms) auspicious – or in Christian terms, what was orthodox. The edict of Milan (313) redefined Imperial ideology as one of mutual toleration.
The main duty of the Pontifices was to maintain the pax deorum or "peace of the gods." [32] The immense authority of the sacred college of pontiffs was centered on the pontifex maximus, the other pontifices forming his consilium or advising body. His functions were partly sacrificial or ritualistic, but these were the least important.
ira deorum: wrath of the gods: Like the vast majority of inhabitants of the ancient world, the ancient Romans practiced pagan rituals, believing it important to achieve a state of pax deorum (peace of the gods) instead of ira deorum (wrath of the gods): earthquakes, floods, famine, etc. ira furor brevis est: wrath (anger) is but a brief madness ...
But where Caesar had failed, Octavian had succeeded: he had restored the pax deorum (lit. peace of the gods) and re-founded Rome through "August augury". [53] In 27 BC he was voted – and accepted – the elevated title of Augustus. [54]