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    often-cited phrase fas et iura sinunt, "fas and iura allow (it)," which Servius explains as "divine and human laws permit (it), for fas pertains to religion...
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    Janus (category Liminal deities)
    at the beginning of wars, or abstract, deriving metaphorically from the liminal, intermediary functions of the god themselves: both in time and space passages...
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    Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2.2 (1998). Perloff, Marjorie. "Cultural liminality / Aesthetic closure?: The interstitial perspective of Homi Bhabha." Ray...
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    of the inauguration of king Numa Pompilius: The augur asks Jupiter: "Si fas est" (i.e. if it is divine justice to do this) "... send me a certain signum...
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    was unharmed by fire after his assassination. Vesta was connected to liminality, and the limen ("threshold") was sacred to her: brides were careful not...
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