shame (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A feeling of or sensibility to disgrace1. pŭdor2. vĕrēcundia (a proper sense of s.)3. rŭbor (meton.II. That which causes a feeling of shame, a disgrace1. dēdĕcus2. pŭdor3. flāgĭtium (an outrage on decency)4. probrum5. rŭbor (rare) • shame (subs.): I. A feeling of or sensibility to disgrace: 1. pŭdor: s., the controller of desire, moderator cupiditatis p., Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 113: s. on account of poverty, paupertatis p., Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 24. Phr.: for shame! sit pudor, Mart. 8, 3, 3: Ov. M. 5, 36: to have lost all s., (omnem) pudorem exuisse: cf. Cic. Lig. 5, 14; p. dimisisse s. projecisse, Cic. (Kr.): do you imagine me so brutal as to be lost to all sense of s.? adeone me ferum putas, ut neque me ... pudor commoveat? Ter. Andr. 1, 5, 45 also expr. by os perfricuisse, Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 31; cf. Mart. 11, 27 quum perfricuit frontem posuitque pudorem: to have a keen sense of s., *pudore facillime (acerrime) moveri: to do anything out of s., pudore s. verecundia adductum (impulsum) facere aliquid (Kr.). 2. vĕrēcundia (a proper sense of s.): s. of wrong doing, turpitudinis v., Cic. Tusc. 5, 26, 74. Join: pudor ac verecundia: id. Fin. 4, 7, 18. 3. rŭbor (meton.: lit. blushing): to put to s., alicui ruborem incutere [et verecundiam] afferre, Liv. 45, 37, extr.: I feel s. on account of anything, pudet me alicujus rei: v. ashamed, to be. II. That which causes a feeling of shame, a disgrace: 1. dēdĕcus: v. disgrace. 2. pŭdor: to publish any one's s., vulgare alicujus p., Ov. H. 11, 79: the mark of a mother's s., nota materni pudoris. Just. 3, 4, med. Phr.: oh s.! proh pudor, Petr. 81. 3. flāgĭtium (an outrage on decency): a deed full of s. and disgrace, factum flagitii plenum et dedecoris, Cic. Att. 16, 7, med.: is it not a s.? ... nonne id flagitium est? ..., Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 49. Join: dedecus et flagitium, Cic. Off. 3, 22, 86; pudor et flagitium, Tac. A. 3, 17, init. 4. probrum: v. disgrace. 5. rŭbor (rare): to be a source of s. to any one, alicui rubori esse, Liv. 45, 13, med.: Tac.