FAITH, or Fidelity (Fides), was deified by the ancient Romans, and had a temple in the Capitol consecrated to her by Atilius Catalinus. Her priests wore white veils: unbloody sacrifices were offered to her, and the greatest oaths were taken in her name. Horace clothes her in white, places her in the retinue of Fortune, and makes her the sister of Justice, Od. 24, 35. l. i. Public Faith is represented in a great number of medals; sometimes with a basket of fruit in one hand, and some ears of corn in the other; and sometimes holding a turtle-dove. But the most usual symbol is two hands joined together. The inscriptions are generally, Fides Augusti, Fides Exercitus, or Fides Militum, &c.