• COURTESY

1.

• Courteousness; Vid:
• A kindness, officium: munus: beneficium: To do or show anybody a courtesy, alicui officium praestare; beneficio aliquem afficere; gratum alicui facere; gratificari alicui: I shall esteem it a great courtesy if you will, etc., gratum or gratissimum mihi feceris, si, etc.; beneficium mihi feceris, si, etc. The common courtesys of life, officia urbana: to dismiss a man with all possible courtesy, dimittere aliquem cum bona gratia.

2. = kurt-se), *genuum flexio. To make a courtesy, Georges gives genua flexa submittere (after Ov., Met., 4, 340; but it is there = “to fall down on her knees “) perhaps *flexis poplitibus salutare; or from context, salutare (aliquem) only.