modesty Copy link Outline 1. pŭdor (sense of shame)2. vĕrēcundia (almost always in good sense; whereas pudor is often simply shame, q. v.)3. pŭdīcĭtia (sexual purity)4. rŭbor, ōris (lit. blushing) • modesty: 1. pŭdor (sense of shame): opp. to petulantia, Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 25: Sall. 2. vĕrēcundia (almost always in good sense; whereas pudor is often simply shame, q. v.): cf. Cic. Rep. 5, 4: m. in asking, v. in rogando, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3. Join: pudor ac verecundia, Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 18. 3. pŭdīcĭtia (sexual purity): v. chastity. Join: pudor, pudicitia, Sall. Cat. 12. 4. rŭbor, ōris (lit. blushing): to show one's proper feeling and m., ingenuitatem et r. suum praestare, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, extr.: Suet. Phr.: to lay aside one's m., os perfricare, Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 41; frontem perfricare, Mart. 11, 27, 7 (where pudoremque ponere is added): in sim. sense, frontis ad urbanae descendere praemia, Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 11: what m. can that man have? quod tandem est os illius...? Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175 (= quae verecundia est, Liv. 21, 19, ad fin.). Phr.: with false m., prave pudens, Hor. A. P. 88.