Meaning of pietās | Babel Free

Definitions

1. dutiful conduct, sense of duty and responsibility
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2. piety, conscientiousness, scrupulousness
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3. duty, dutifulness, affection, love, loyalty, patriotism, gratitude
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4. gentleness, kindness, tenderness, pity, compassion
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Equivalents

Examples

“quidve dolēns rēgīna deum tot volvere cāsūs īnsignem pietāte virum tot adīre labōrēs impulerit. Or what [was] aggrieving the queen of the gods that she would have driven a man – distinguished by [his] piety – to so many turns of misfortunes, [and] to undergo so many trials? (These opening lines pose the epic’s enduring question: How can it be that someone dutifully responsible to gods, family, and country – the ancient Roman ideal of “pietās” – should nevertheless suffer? Notes: “of the gods” [de(ōr)um]: genitive plural; “[she] would have driven” [impulerit]: perfect active subjunctive. See: Pietas.)”

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