humble (v.) Copy link Outline 1. dēprĭmo, pressi, ssum, 32. infringo, frēgi, fractum, 3 (to break the strength of)3. comprĭmo, 3 • humble (v.): 1. dēprĭmo, pressi, ssum, 3: to exalt oneself and h. another, seipsum extollere, alium d., Liv. 3, 65, extr.: cf. id. 30, 36, med., deprimendi hostis causa. 2. infringo, frēgi, fractum, 3 (to break the strength of): he did not so far h. them that they abandoned their empire, non ita infregit animos eorum, ut imperio absisterent, Liv. 38, 16, fin.: cf. Cic. Bal. 6, 15, florem dignitatis inf.: Tac. So frango (to baffle and defeat): cf. Cic. Fam. 13, 12, med., hunc quemadmodum fregerim, quantaque contentione Titium intercessorem abjecerim ...: to baffle and h. a man's audacity, contundere et f. alicujus audaciam, Cic. Phil. 13, 13, extr. 3. comprĭmo, 3: v. to check, restrain. Phr.: to h. oneself before any one, se summittere alicui [et supplicare] Cic. Plan. 10, init. (cf. Liv. 27, 31, med., submittere fastigium); se demittere (to let oneself down to anything), Quint. prooem. § 5 (animos demittere, is to lose heart, be discouraged, Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42); descendere (v. to condescend); se abjicere atque prosternere (to degrade oneself), Cic. Par. 1, 3, 14: the h.'d Phraates, Ph. genibus minor, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, fin.