Il pio e lʼempio nellʼONOMASTICON di Polluce

Julius Pollux, a lexicographer in Athens under the emperor Commodus, devotes a chapter of the Onomasticon to a pious and impious man. He adds to this opposition a third epithet, the superstitious. this tripartition is characteristic of the peripatetics (theophrastus). moreover the connection of the ὀλιγωρία θεῶν and the νεωτερισμός, like the diffusion of religious cults from orient, is typical in this age of the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.