GENTLEMAN Copy link • GENTLEMANWith reference to birth, ingenuus: honesto loco natus (of good birth). To be brought up as a gentleman, ingenue educari. A simple gentleman, nihil ultra quam ingenuus (Liv., 8, 10). A gentleman by birth, honestis parentibus or honesto loco natus. With reference to breeding and sentiment, homo ingenuus et liberaliter educatus: educatus ingenue: vir humanitate politus. ☞ The word being used vaguely, according to the speaker’s view of the gentlemanly character, must be translated with reference to the particular quality implied; vir liberalis: bonus, fortis, magno animo praeditus (all Cic., Rep., 1, 5, of persons), probus, etc. (Anybody is) no gentleman, homo politioris humanitatis expers. A gentleman ought to, etc., est hominis ingenui, liberaliter educati, with infinitive, etc. (Cic.). The education of a gentleman, liberales disciplinae (Quint., 12, 7, 8). A young gentleman, puer (adolescens, etc.) ingenuus, or honesto loco natus: to play the fine gentleman, valde jam lautum esse: you are a fine gentleman forsooth, not to condescend to write to me, valde jam lautus es, qui gravere litteras ad me dare (Cic., Fam., 7, 14, 1).