virtus
Short definition (Lewis & Short): manliness, manhood, i. e. the sum of all the corporeal or mental excellences of man, strength, vigor; bravery, courage; aptness, capacity; worth, excellence, virtue, etc..
Full entry: Lexicon.
362 occurrences of this form in 35 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Letters to Lucilius
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- On the Happy Life
- Philippics
- Aeneid
- De Oratore
- Letters to Friends
- Metamorphoses
- De Re Publica
- Odes
- Satires
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- Epistles
- The Jugurthine War
- Letters to Atticus
- Gallic War
- Epigrams
- Ars Amatoria
- Annals
- Histories
- De Officiis
- Letters
- Satires
- De Rerum Natura
- On Tranquility of Mind
- Agricola
- Ars Poetica
- Medea
- Phaedra
- The Golden Ass
- Poems
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- On the Shortness of Life
- Germania
- Eclogues
Example passages
……propositum revertamur. Sapiens, etiam si contentus est se, tamen habere amicum vult, si nihil aliud, ut exerceat amicitiam, ne tam magna virtus iaceat, non ad hoc, quod dicebat Epicurus in hac ipsa epistula, ut habeat, qui sibi aegro adsideat, succurrat in vincula coniecto vel inopi, sed ut habeat aliquem, cui ipse aegro adsideat, quem ipse……
…urbes quoque, ut cetera, ex infimo nasci; dein, quas sua uirtus ac di iuuent, magnas opes sibi magnumque nomen facere;…
…Adice nunc, quod voluptas etiam ad vitam turpissimam venit, at virtus malam vitam non admittit, et infelices quidam non sine voluptate, immo ob ipsam voluptatem sunt, quod non eveniret, si virtuti se voluptas immiscuisset, qua virtus saepe caret, numquam indiget.…