virtue

From LSJ

καὶ τὸ σιγᾶν πολλάκις ἐστὶ σοφώτατον ἀνθρώπῳ νοῆσαι → and silence is often the wisest thing for a man to heed, and often is man's best wisdom to be silent, and often keeping silent is the wisest thing for a man to heed

Source

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

Of persons or things: P. and V. ἀρετή, ἡ.

goodness: P. and V. χρηστότης, ἡ, τὸ χρηστόν (Euripides, Supp. 866).

chastity: P. ἁγνεία, ἡ, V. ἅγνευμα, τό.

of drugs: V. δύνασις, ἡ, ἰσχύς, ἡ.