arete vs excellence

arete

noun
  • Virtue, excellence. 

  • The proper state or condition for a human. 

excellence

noun
  • An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue. 

  • The quality of being excellent; brilliance 

  • Something in which one excels. 

How often have the words arete and excellence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )