Virtus (Virtus)
Virtus is excellence and courage. The word is related to vir, a man, but the example is a father teaching a child. Later writers also praise virtus in a mother and in her sons.
Grades 7–8. Roman values.
How it connects
Learn courage from someone who has done the hard work. That is the classroom sense of the line.
A line to remember
Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem.
Learn courage from me, child, and true work.
Vergil, Aeneid 12.435
Latin words that go with this card: puer, labor, vir.