impiety Copy link Outline 1. impiĕtas (wrongful conduct towards parents, country, the gods)2. scĕlus, ĕris, n. • impiety: 1. impiĕtas (wrongful conduct towards parents, country, the gods): there is nothing which makes men so wretched as i. and guilt, nihil est quod tam miseros faciat quam imp. et scelus, Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 66: cf. id. Am. 12, 42. 2. scĕlus, ĕris, n.: v. wickedness, guilt. Phr.: they hold it to be an i., nefas habent (foll. by inf.), Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 56; fas non putant, Caes. B. G. 5, 12: to tend to i., ad solvendam religionem pertinere, Val. Max. 1, 1, 12.