Fides

Definition:

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Fides is a Latin word encompassing the concepts of honesty, uprightness, and trustworthiness. Fides is also a Roman personification of good faith, with a temple on the Capitoline. As a legal term, fides refers to honoring the terms of the agreement.

References:

• _{Herbert Jennings Rose, John Scheid "Fides" The Oxford Classical Dictionary. © Oxford University Press 1949, 1970, 1996, 2005.}
• _{"Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law," by Adolf Berger; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1953), pp. 333-809.}

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