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Aequitas

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{{about|the legal concept|the Canadian stock exchange|Aequitas Neo}}Aequitas (genitive aequitatis) is the Latin concept of justice, equality, conformity, symmetry, or fairness. It is the origin of the English word "equity".^[1] In ancient Rome, it could refer to either the legal concept of equity, or fairness between individuals.^[2]Cicero defined aequitas as "tripartite": the first, he said, pertained to the gods above (ad superos deos) and is equivalent to pietas, religious obligation; the second, to the Manes, the underworld spirits or spirits of the dead, and was sanctitas, that which is sacred; and the third pertaining to human beings (homines) was iustitia, "justice".^[3]

During the Roman Empire, Aequitas as a divine personification was part of the religious propaganda of the emperor, under the name Aequitas Augusti, which also appeared on coins.^[4] She is depicted on coins holding a cornucopiae and a balance scale (libra), which was more often a symbol of "honest measure" to the Romans than of justice.^[5]

References

1. ^http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=equity
2. ^Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 49 [https://books.google.com/books?id=OKMicP_RRn8C&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=Cicero,+aequitas&source=bl&ots=Z6OcJ6dFfW&sig=xM-Nc9xWOSagavPmOjYGSptcd0g&hl=en&ei=Eaf2SbuwI5Gktwfw0bjBDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=Cicero%2C%20aequitas&f=false online.] See also George Mousourakis, The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law (Ashgate, 2003), pp. 28, 32–35.
3. ^Cicero, Topica 90, as cited by Jerzy Linderski, "Q. Scipio Imperator," in Imperium sine fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (Franz Steiner, 1996), p. 175.
4. ^J. Rufus Fears, "The Cult of Virtues and Roman Imperial Ideology," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.17.2 (1981), pp. 897–898, 900, 903–904.
5. ^Linderski, "Q. Scipio Imperator," p. 175.

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