BELIEF Copy link • BELIEFfides (assured belief): opinio (opinion, view): persuasio (firm conviction). Creed, formula Christiana: lex Christiana (the latter Ammianus, of a Christian’s “ride of faith”). An article of the belief, caput doctrinae sacrae (caput or articulus fidei, barbarous): locus doctrinae sacrae. The universal belief about a thing, omnium opinio de re. A belief that poison had been administerd by some one, persuasio veneni ab aliquo accepti. According to my belief, ut ego existimo; mea quidem opinione; ut mihi quidem videtur. The common belief that, etc., vulgata opinio, qua creditur, etc. Easy of belief, credulus. Hard of belief, incredulus. Past belief, incredibilis; incredibile quantum, supra quam credibile est. Worthy of belief, fide dignus, fidus, certus, bonus, locuples, luculentus; credibilis; probabilis: unworthy of belief, levis nee satis fidus (e.g., auctor). In an ecclesiastical sense, fides (belief, faith): doctrina, formula, lex (objectively, doctrine, profession, law), lex Christiana (Ammianus): relirio (religion, generally; as, religio Christiana, Eutropius, Arnobius). Vid :, Krebs, after Muretus, advises the retention of fides Christiana as a technical term. To fight for his belief, pro religionibus suis pugnare (defend it with the sword); pro religionibus suis bellum (or -a) suscipere. Belief in (the existence of) a God, opinio Dei: nobody shall drive me from my belief in the immortality of the soul, nemo me de immortalitate depellet (Cic.): the common belief, that, etc., vulgata opinio qua creditur, etc. (Liv., 40, 29): to have or hold a wrong belief on any subject, non recte credere de re (Cic.): not to deserve any belief (of a thing), fidem or nullam fidem habere.