Carlin Barton, in Roman Honor suggested that honor and dignitas was connected by reality not as much revealed, but rather as willed, created, realized into being by immanence, action by putting any belief or concept, which also includes factus (facts) as something repeatedly put to the test or trail (always immanent), intensity. Roman life was about discovering ones own self, discovering our strength, discovering the truth of what is said is by what is endured, what thought isn't active, they have more fire and light. Now fact (or fiction) is passive.