See also:

• ROMAN

ROMAN See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

RELIGION  . In tracing the See also:

• HISTORY

history of the See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion of the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• PEOPLE

people we are not, as in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of See also:

• GREECE

Greece, dealing with See also:

• SEPARATE

separate, though interacting, developments in a number of See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent communities, but with a single community which won its way to the headship first of See also:

• LATIUM

Latium, then of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy and finally of a See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• EMPIRE

empire . But this very fact of its ever-extending See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence, coupled with an See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of dogmatism in belief, which made it at all times ready and even anxious to adopt See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign customs and ideas, gave its religion a constantly shifting and broadening See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, so that it is difficult to determine the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original essentials . By the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time when Latin literature begins, the genuine Roman religion had already been overlaid by foreign cults and modes of thought, by the classical See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period it was—except in formal observance—practically buried and to a large extent fossilized .