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The meaning of Virtus...
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Quote:- Fortitudo (strength)
- Disciplina (training)
- Constantia (steadiness)
- Patientia (endurance)
- Contemptus mortis (contempt of death)
- Amor laudis (love of glory)
- Cupido victoriae (desire to win)

Qualities that sounds strangely familiar to what a Roman soldier would be all about. Smile
aka: Julio Peña
Quote:"audaces Fortuna iuvat"
- shouted by Turnus in Virgil\'s Aeneid in book X just before he is utterly destroyed by Aeneas\' Trojans.
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The meaning of Virtus... - by Magnus - 02-09-2008, 07:27 AM
Re: The meaning of Virtus... - by Magnus - 02-09-2008, 07:49 AM
Re: The meaning of Virtus... - by Tarbicus - 02-09-2008, 12:30 PM
Re: The meaning of Virtus... - by Kate Gilliver - 02-09-2008, 12:31 PM
Re: The meaning of Virtus... - by Hibernicus - 02-09-2008, 04:18 PM
Re: The meaning of Virtus... - by Magnus - 02-09-2008, 05:19 PM
Re: The meaning of Virtus... - by Ivlivs·Aemilivs·Celer - 02-10-2008, 02:03 AM
Re: The meaning of Virtus... - by Tarbicus - 02-10-2008, 08:04 AM

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