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The article argues that the imperial expansion of the Late Roman Republic is reflected in Cicero’s philosophical texts by example of De divinatione. The expansion of Rome made it necessary to consider what it meant to be Roman and what Roman practices are, especially confronted with other, alien practices that might seem similar. Cicero offers his texts as an admonition to consider religious practices – here: divination – the Romans might encounter in the provinces and how to deal with them, to consider their usefulness while also bearing in mind the latent danger in not doing them right or exceeding the religious need which upholds the pax deorum. Being put in the context of the expanding empire, the article makes sense of the multiple non-Roman examples cited especially in Book 1 of the treatise De divinatione.

Translation abstract Repair welding on bridges in serviceOn steel bridges, fatigue damage repeatedly occurs in weld seams as a result of increasing traffic loads as well as design and construction defects. To carry out the repair works, the bridge must be closed to bridge traffic during re‐welding in order to prevent the movement on the crack flanks. According to the current state of the art, welding works during traffic is not allowed, because until now there has been insufficient knowledge about achievable seam qualities and fatigue strengths for welding seams in service. The aim is to provide reliable methods that allow welding work on steel structures during traffic or cyclic loading. As a basis, measurements were carried out on a representative steel bridge in order to derive realistic gap opening parameters for welding tests under cyclic loading. The description of the crack behaviour and force redistribution during welding in service presents a particular challenge in the laboratory. To quantify the influence of different welding boundary conditions, the experimental investigations were carried out based on displacement and force control. In both limit cases, standard‐compliant weld seam qualities and fatigue strengths were realised, which demonstrate the technical possibility of welding in service under defined boundary conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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