-
collegium devoted to
Jupiter as the
patron of good faith. The
duties of the
fetials included advising the
Senate on
foreign affairs and
international treaties...
- The
action of the
fetials falls under Jupiter's
jurisdiction as the
divine defender of good faith.
Several emblems of the
fetial office pertain to Jupiter...
- the
first time that the
Romans declared war by
means of the
rites of the
fetials.
Ancus Marcius marched from Rome with a
newly levied army and took the...
- guarantors. An army, the
fetials and the
guarantors to be
surrendered were sent to Samnium. Once there,
Postumius jostled the knee of a
fetial and
claimed that...
-
formalized the
declaration of war by a
special ceremony, the
ritual of the
Fetials,
though the
practice started to
decline into the
Imperial era. However...
- to the
later Republic.
Tullus Hostilius and
Ancus Marcius instituted the
fetial priests. The
first "outsider"
Etruscan king,
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus,...
-
attributed to Numa: curiones, flamines, celeres, augurs, vestals, salii,
fetials and pontiffs. He says only a few
words about the curiones, who were in...
-
probably ****isted by "the use of
recuperatores to
mediate disputes and
fetial priests to
control the
declaration of war". The
effect to make it more difficult...
- "just war" (bellum iustum) thus
required a
ritualized declaration by the
fetial priests. More broadly,
conventions of war and treaty-making were part of...
-
which should only be
undertaken with a
ritualized declaration of war by the
fetial priests.
Foreign amb****adors were
protected by the ius gentium, and it was...
