humility Copy link Outline 1. animus summissus, dēmissus2. mŏdestia (opp. to arrogance, or stepping out of one's proper sphere)3. hŭmĭlĭtas (in this sense post-class., but indispensable) • humility: 1. animus summissus, dēmissus: v. humble. 2. mŏdestia (opp. to arrogance, or stepping out of one's proper sphere): cf. Nep. Ages. 4, tantâ modestiâ dicto audiens fuit ... ut si privatus esset: Cic. 3. hŭmĭlĭtas (in this sense post-class., but indispensable): rich on a level with poor by h., divites pauperibus humilitate animi pares, Lact. 5, 15, med.: Vulg. Act. xx. 19: Eccl. Phr.: to behave with h., summisse se gerere: v. humbly.