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  2. Dignitas (Roman concept) - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Gravitas - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Dignitas - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Talk:Dignitas (Roman concept) - Wikipedia

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    Dignitas was used as a measurement of a person's worth. A Roman couldn't become a consul without establishing his dignitas, and his rivals would stop at no end in order to bring down his dignitas. The fundamental difference is that person's dignity is a personal feeling of pride whereas dignitas is a measurement of personal worth.

  6. Romanitas - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. De Inventione - Wikipedia

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    De Inventione is a handbook for orators that Cicero composed when he was still a young man. Quintilian tells us that Cicero considered the work rendered obsolete by his later writings. [1]

  8. Mos maiorum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Category:Ancient Roman virtues - Wikipedia

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