[95] Inmortale fas seems to be i. q. “id quod fas est inmortalibus,” that which divine law allows to the immortals. So ‘mortalis’ is used rather widely as an epithet when the meaning is not that the thing is mortal but that it belongs to a mortal (comp. E. 8. 35, G. 3. 319). ‘Fas’ may be spoken of as binding the gods, as in 4. 113., 5. 800., 8. 397.
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