Talk:Res divina

message: :"Others have also been generous with their time and wisdom. Carlin Barton, Richard Billows, John North, and R.E.A. Palmer all read and commented on the manuscript in whole or in part and improved it considerably. I am particularly indebted also to Jerzy Linderski for sharing the enormous wealth of his erudition and especially for guiding a novice through the maze of the res divina at Rome. Few scholars could hope to be more fortunate than I have been in my colleagues—Jack Balcer, Timothy Gregory, John Guilmartin, Joseph Lynch, and Stephen Tracy. They as well as Richard Rothaus all read the manuscript in its entirety and greatly enhanced its quality. Needless to say, none of them is to blame for the shortcomings that remain. I am also grateful to Douglas O'Roark for compiling the bibliography. The Department of History and the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University as well as Franklin and Marshall College all generously provided support." 
Found at Imperatores Victi
This sentence here depicts that res divina is a category; a category of the religious laws of Rome.  These laws are part and parcel of the Roman constitution that Government Officials had to carry out.  If religious ceremonies was mandated by the government, then it was part of the Constitution. WHEELER 02:48, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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Found at: Thayer's Lacus Curtius
I don't read Latin but does the "res divina" here signify a category?WHEELER 02:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Inscription

message: I'm going to remove the tag at the top and incorporate material from the developing Imperial cult (ancient Rome) article. At the moment, I don't intend to do a thorough job of integration, but promise to follow the Hippocratic and druidic maxim of "Do no harm." Cynwolfe (talk) 00:26, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  incorporation of new material 

message: Res divina simply means a religious service or ritual held on particular times or occasions, usually at established places, possibly temples or sacred sites.
The article goes on to discuss Roman religion cult and even beliefs. This might be relevant but here is loosely presented. 
Moreover there are some questionable statements: Roman religion was first the same of Latins and foremostly Sabins (king Numa and Titus Tatius were Sabin). While mentioning Etruscan elements may be appropriate, it should be stated that Haruspicina was considered for a long time a foreign lore and looked upon suspiciously. (Romans consulted haruspices only 3 times from 509 BC to the second Punic war and were cheated twice).
The Carthagenian elements: what are they(maybe in Etruria, ie Pyrgi)? Greek elements: great and difficult topic. See eg the cult of Hercules and the question of the first dwellers of the site of Rome, Evander and the Argei.Aldrasto11 (talk) 13:10, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This article has an odd history; it was created a long time ago, abandoned for a while, and then used to 'dump' some content from Religion in ancient Rome to try to prevent that article from becoming too long. It never seems to have been the object of much organized development. It's quite possible that it could be handled adequately as an entry in Glossary of ancient Roman religion, as a term rather than something requiring a full conceptual presentation. Cynwolfe (talk) 14:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Reviewing this after having made a few more notes, I still think it likely that the article could be condensed to an entry for the Glossary. I agree with what Aldrasto said about the looseness of the organization, and a cursory look at some scholarship renews my feeling that this doesn't need an article. Will look at it more closely toward that end, if there are no objections. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:38, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Note for future development: here is the relevant material from Varro via Augustine. Cynwolfe (talk) 04:29, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and content