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Dignitas (Classical Latin: [ˈdɪŋnɪtaːs]) is a Latin word referring to a unique, intangible, and culturally subjective social concept in the ancient Roman mindset. The word does not have a direct translation in English .
Aeneas, depicted here with Venus, was considered the embodiment of gravitas, pietas, dignitas, and virtus. [4]Gravitas was one of the virtues that allowed citizens, particularly statesmen, to embody the concept of romanitas, [5] which denotes what it meant to be Roman and how Romans regarded themselves, eventually evolving into a national character. [6]
Dignitas may refer to: Dignitas (Roman concept), a Roman virtue; Dignitas (non-profit organisation), organization providing physician-assisted suicide; Dignitas International, a humanitarian organisation; Dignitas (esports), a US-based esports team; Dignitas personae, a Vatican instruction on bioethics
Romanitas is the collection of political and cultural concepts and practices by which the Romans defined themselves. It is a Latin word, first coined in the third century AD, meaning "Roman-ness" and has been used by modern historians as shorthand to refer to Roman identity and self-image.
Dignitas (Roman concept) Doli incapax; Domicilium citandi et executandi; Dominion (political theory) Dominium; Dominium directum et utile; Dubitante; Duorum in solidum dominium vel possessio esse non potest; Dura lex, sed lex
The Roman family was one of the ways that the mos maiorum was passed along through the generations.. The mos maiorum (Classical Latin: [ˈmoːs majˈjoːrʊ̃]; "ancestral custom" [1] or "way of the ancestors"; pl.: mores, cf. English "mores"; maiorum is the genitive plural of "greater" or "elder") is the unwritten code from which the ancient Romans derived their social norms.
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