Reflections around "Deorum iniurias dis curae " (Tap. Ann. 1. 73): how can we interpret this sententia?

• Main Author: Jose Mambwini Kivuila‑Kiaku
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Coimbra University Press 2014-12-01
• Series: Humanitas
• Subjects: Faianius; Rubrius; Tacite; Tibère; droit romain; justice romaine; justice divine; loi de lèse-majesté; religion romaine
• Online Access: http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/index.php/humanitas/article/view/1835

<p>The study of the <em>sententia</em> "<em>Deorum iniurias dis curae</em>" of the <em>Annals</em> 1. 73, variously interpreted by specialists of Tacitus, dresses in a big importance in the understanding not only of political, philosophic and religious thought of Tacitus, but also its writing of the history the influence of the rhetoric of which is not to be any more demonstrated. At the same time as it returns on eternal question of the nature of the motives which, in the Tacitus’s <em>Annals</em>, justifies it resorts systematic by Tiberius of the <em>lex maiestatis</em>, the present article opens some tracks of the refletions on the main questions that some people settle on and around this <em>sententia</em>. One of these tracks consists in presenting this formula as an invitation or a kind of call to order of the historian towards the emperor not to confuse the <em>ius</em>, the right human being, and the <em>fas</em>, the divine justice, in other words to avoid the confusion between the <em>ius humanum</em> and the <em>religio</em>. In another context, this <em>sententia</em> can be considered warning on the way the imperial cult is exerced in Rome.</p><p><a title="http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_66_10" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_66_10">http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_66_10</a></p>