The decline of the munus was a far from straightforward process.

The proximity of death defined the munus for all concerned.

Increasingly the munus was the editors gift to spectators who had come to expect the best as their due.

This is the origin of the munus.

Their training as gladiators would give them opportunity to redeem their honour in the munus.

As most ordinarii at games were from the same school, this kept potential opponents separate and safe from each other until the lawful munus.

They included a provincial magnate's five-day munus of thirty pairs, plus beast-hunts.

The gladiator munus was never explicitly acknowledged as a human sacrifice, probably because death was not its inevitable outcome or purpose.

The munus thus represented an essentially military, self-sacrificial ideal, taken to extreme fulfillment in the gladiator's oath.

(a) The prophetical office (munus, or officium propheticum) includes teaching and the miracles of Christ.

In the pre-Christian era, the highest status funerals involved expensive, prolonged cremation ceremonies, sometimes complete with a munus offering.

Especially today, Christian moral teaching must be one of the chief areas in which we exercise our pastoral vigilance, in carrying out our munus regale.

Suetonius describes an exceptional munus by Nero, in which no-one was killed, "not even noxii (enemies of the state)."

The word munera, singular munus (cf. English "munificence") means "duty, obligation", expressing the individual's responsibility to provide a service or contribution to his community.

A munus of 89 AD, during Domitian's reign, featured a battle between female gladiators and dwarfs.

This is described as a munus (plural: munera), a commemorative duty owed the manes of a dead ancestor by his descendants.

In 1721 he permitted the publication of his Solitudinis Munus: or, Hints for Thinking (anon.)

The main message of the exhortation - "Africae Munus" in the Vatican's official language, Latin - will be peace, reconciliation and justice.

Vine finds in it support for his interpreting of (M)EINOM as meaning munus.

Caesar's munus of 46 BC included at least one equestrian, son of a Praetor, and possibly two senatorial volunteers.

The munus became a morally instructive form of historic enactment in which the only honourable option for the gladiator was to fight well, or else die well.

The use of volunteers had a precedent in the Iberian munus of Scipio Africanus; but none of those had been paid.

The Feast focusses firstly on Jesus Christ in His office (Latin: Munus) of Priest.

This political manoeuvre was banned by the Senate in 63BC by not allowing the election of any magistrate who had held a munus up to two years previously.