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Old Nov 17th, 2004, 05:51 PM       
It has been a long time (close to a decade) sionce I was in a Latin class, so I could be wrong. But, if I remember correctly:

vires refers to stength in a health sense (as in virility)

fortes refers to brute force (fortification) or strength of charecter(fortitude).
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