Pietas (Pietas)
Pietas is duty to family, the gods, and the city. English "pious" is only part of the idea. Aeneas is called pius because he carries his father from Troy and keeps faith with the gods.
Grades 7–8. Roman values.
How it connects
When a poet calls someone pius, the word praises duty, not only a feeling about religion.
A line to remember
Sum pius Aeneas.
I am Aeneas, a man of duty.
Vergil, Aeneid 1.378
Latin words that go with this card: pater, deus, filius.