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Pietas in traditional Latin usage expressed a complex, highly valued Roman virtue; a man with pietas respected his responsibilities to gods, country, parents, and kin. [2] In its strictest sense it was the sort of love a son ought to have for his father.
Pietas erga parentes (" pietas toward one's parents") was one of the most important aspects of demonstrating virtue. Pius as a cognomen originated as way to mark a person as especially "pious" in this sense: announcing one's personal pietas through official nomenclature seems to have been an innovation of the late Republic, when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius claimed it for his efforts to ...
Aristotle used it in a technical sense as the virtue that strikes the mean with regard to anger: being too quick to anger is a vice, but so is being detached in a situation where anger is appropriate; justified and properly focused anger is named mildness or gentleness. [2] Gentleness is not passive; it requires a resistance to brutality.
"Bruh" originated from the word "brother" and was used by Black men to address each other as far back as the late 1800s. Around 1890, it was recorded as a title that came before someone's name ...
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The term chivalry retains a certain currency in sociology, in reference to the general tendency of men, and of society in general, to lend more attention offering protection from harm to women than to men, or in noting gender gaps in life expectancy, health, etc., also expressed in media bias giving significantly more attention to female than ...
Melton averaged 10.3 points and 3.3 rebounds per game with the Warriors this season, his first with the team. He signed a one-year, $12.8 million deal with the team this past offseason after he ...
The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that. Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord, Wha struts and stares and a' that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that: For a' that, and a' that, His ribband, star, and a' that, The man o' independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can make a belted knight,