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virtutem

virtutem is a Latin form of virtus, meaning “courage, excellence, virtue”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 596 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.40.15: Quod si praeterea nemo sequatur, tamen se cum sola decima legione iturum, de qua non dubitet, sibique eam praetoriam cohortem futuram. Huic legioni Caesar et indulserat praecipue et propter virtutem confidebat maxime.

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.154: … . bono praesidio munitur existimatio tua, siquidem in Aproni constituitur diligentia atque auctoritate. habes virtvtem, eloqventiam.

Horace, Epistulae 1.6.16: ultra quam satis est Virtutem si petat ipsam.

All forms of virtus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.