STRENGTH Copy link • STRENGTHForce, vis; vires, plur., (power): robur (physical ability to endure toil, etc.): nervi: lacerti (muscular powers, for work). Exertion of strength, contentio; labor; virium contentio: to possess great strength, bonis esse viribus; viribus pollere (Sall.): with all my strength, as far as my strength permits, pro meis viribus (☞ not pro virili parte); omnibus viribus; viribus; ut possum; ut potero; quantum in me, in mea potestate, situm est; quantum per vires licet: thai is beyond my strength, hoc excedit virium mearum modum; hoc superat vires meas; hoc facere, efficere, non possum: to lose strength, vires amittere (Cic.): my strength fails me, vires me deficiunt (Caes.): to gather strength, vires colligere (Cic., Liv.); viribus firmari, augeri, crescere (after Cic.): to recover one’s strength, vires recolligere (Plin.), recuperare (Tac.), revocare (Cic.), convalescere (to recover from sickness): to put forth one’s strength, contendere nervos, vires: to try one’s strength, vires suas exercere; nervos atque vires experiri: strength of mind, vis, vires, robur animi; nervi mentis. Efficacy, vis: virtus: efficacitas: efficientia. Civil or military power or influence, vis: potentia: opes; plur., copiae, facultates (for war).