...valiant, civil, popular, eloquent, politic, and religious; he has given all these qualities to ..Eneas. incense, and their aid implores. Next, for his friends and royal host he sent, judg'd that this ought to be his first character, whom he would set for a pattern of perfection. In...

...valiant, civil, popular, eloquent, politic, and religious; he has given all these qualities to JEneas. But, knowing that piety alone comprehends the whole...towards his country, and towards his relations, he judg'd that this ought to be his first character, whom he would set for a pattern of perfection. In...

...valiant, civil, popular, eloquent, politic, and religious; he has given all these qualities to ^Eneas. But, knowing that piety alone comprehends the whole...towards his country, and towards his relations, he judg'd that this ought to be his first character, whom he would set for a pattern of perfection. In...

...civil, popular, eloquent, politic, and religious ; he has given all these qualities to ./Eneas. But, 35 knowing that piety alone comprehends the whole duty...first character, whom he would set for a pattern of 5 perfection. In reality, they who believe that the praises which arise from valour are superior to...

...given all these qualities to ^Eneas. But, 35 N 2 knowing that piety alone comprehends the whole duly of man towards the gods, towards his country, and...first character, whom he would set for a pattern of 5 perfection. In reality, they who believe that the praises which arise from valour are superior to...

...D. Garrison studies the semantic evolution of the word pietas from the inclusive Vergilian term for "the whole Duty of Man towards the Gods; towards his Country, and towards his Relations" (Dryden, in Garrison 1) to pity and piety in English and related terms in French and Italian. He argues...

...cognates. Latin pietas, whatever Saint-Evremond may have thought, denotes not saintly conduct alone, but 'the whole Duty of Man towards the Gods; towards his Country, and towards his Relations'. 35 It is a far more appropriate virtue with which to endow a hero than valour alone: In reality, they...

...heroic courage of Achilles, Segrais preferred the piety of Aeneas, which, Dryden explains, comprehended "the whole Duty of Man towards the Gods; towards his Country, and towards his Relations."61 Piety was the supreme virtue of the prince who would govern well, and in that sense it...

...heritage. This was part of the climb to virtue's heights. And for Dryden, virtue begins and ends in piety. "Piety alone comprehends the whole Duty of Man towards...Gods; towards his Country, and towards his Relations" (Works v: 288). 45 NOTES i. P. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-century...

...French version) ably extends his own understanding. Translating literally from Segrais, Dryden writes that "Piety alone comprehends the whole Duty of Man...towards the Gods; towards his Country, and towards Relations." Dryden then studiously records Segrais's holding that pietas includes "even Valour it self,...