what is right (by divine law), lawful; (fas est) it is permitted
Latin word, found 419 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.50.4: non esse fas Germanos superare, si ante novam lunam proelio contendissent.
Vergil, Aeneid 5.800: Fas omne est, Cytherea, meis te fidere regnis,
Plautus, Cistellaria 1.1.19_20b: Iusque fásque est: