The mos maiorum (lit. ways of the ancestors) were the ancestral traditions, an unwritten code of laws and conduct, of the ancient Romans. An ancestor is a Parent or ( recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem acc of traditio which means "a giving up delivering up surrendering" and is used in a number of A Code is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the code was enacted by a Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC It institutionalized cultural traditions, societal mores, and general policies, as distinct from specific laws.
The eight cornerstones of mos maiorum were:
- fides — fidelity, loyalty, faith
- pietas — piety, devotion, patriotism, duty
- religio — religious scruple, reverence for higher power(s), strictness of observance, conscientiousness precision of conduct
- disciplina — discipline, diligence
- constantia — firmness, steadiness
- gravitas — seriousness, dignity, authority
- parsimonia — frugality
- severitas — strictness in the moral sense
It was partially typified by a respect for fathers and husbands and acknowledgement of one's subservience to them. Pietas redirects here See Pietas (goddess for the divine personification of this virtue Gravitas (from Latin) is a quality of substance or depth of personality One of the best illustrations of this tradition is found in the writings of Cato the Elder. Marcus Porcius Cato ( Latin: M·PORCIVS·M·F·CATO (234 BC Tusculum &ndash149 BC was a Roman statesman surnamed the Censor
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