PSY 005 Lecture 28:
2 Sep 2020
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Mos maiorum traditional morals and customs that had been handed down from generation and reached back to the remotest ancestors; related to both gods and men. Fas governed the relationship between gods and men: anything running counter nefas (taboo) disrupted the harmony between the. Romans and their gods: a trial was designed to appease the wrathful gods a ritual ceremony, the punishment constituted a propitiatory sacrifice for the gods. Ius governed the relations between the roman citizens themselves. Leges regiae statute laws promulgated by the king. 5th century bc conflict between the patricians and the plebeians: the plebeians wanted to law to be recorded it would prevent the priests (who were patricians) from changing the law. 451 bc a ten-person commission (the decemviri legibus scribundis) was appointed. 449 bc comitia and concilium plebis (popular assemblies) would adopt statute laws which amended or added to the law of the twelve tables: lex aquila plebiscite on tort law from 287 bc.
