Crossword-Solution: GRAVITAS 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The weighty earnestness (_gravitas_) peculiar to the national character was nowhere more conspicuously displayed than in the impassioned and yet strictly practical discussions of the senate.

That special quality, so well named by the Romans _gravitas_, which at Athens was never reached, but which has again appeared in England, owed its development to the august discipline of the Senate.

There are faint traces of the _Romana gravitas_ in lines such as iamque tibi veniet tempus quo maxima rerum nobilior sit Roma mails (iii.

Cursus est certus aetatis et una via naturae eaque simplex, suaque cuique parti aetatis tempestivitas est data, ut et infirmitas puerorum et ferocitas iuvenum et gravitas iam constantis aetatis et senectutis maturitas naturale quiddam habet, quod suo tempore percipi debeat.

The Romans, a harder and coarser race, had their ideal of _virtus_ and _gravitas_, which included simplicity of life, dignity and self-restraint, honesty and industry, and devotion to the state.