Εὐσέβεια
piety
Translated by Marcelo Boeri30 Apr 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a knowledge of the service of a god.1 Therefore excellent people, in being pure, are fitting to offer sacrifice to a god; for they avoid the sins concerning a god, and god is delighted with them; for they are both pious and just. They are priests as well; for they carefully consider what is related to sacrifices, foundations,2 purifications, and the other matters appropriate to the divine.
"Piety is an easy thing and quite full of temperance and in no way burdensome."3
"For piety does [not] expire with mortals; whether they live, whether they die, it is not destroyed."4
"Piety is an easy thing and quite full of temperance and in no way burdensome."3
"For piety does [not] expire with mortals; whether they live, whether they die, it is not destroyed."4