worthy Copy link Outline I. DeservingII. Possessing worth, good • worthy: I. Deserving: dignus: (i.) with abl.: a man most w. of his ancestors, vir majoribus suis dignissimus, Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 25: you are w. of stripes, dignus es verberibus, Pl. Mil. 2, 3, 71: flattery is not w. even of a free man, assentatio ne libero quidem digna est, Cic. Am. 24, 89: (ii.) with relative and subj.: w. of commanding, dignus qui imperet, id. Leg. 3, 2, 5: (iii.) with infin. (only in poets): w. to be praised in song, dignus cantari, Virg. E. 5, 54: (iv.) with ut (very rarely): I am not w., compared with you, to drive a stake into a wall, non sum dignus prae te ut figam palum in parietem, Pl. Mil. 4, 4, 4. II. Possessing worth, good: Phr. w. and suitable men, digni et idonei, Sall. C. 51: but this use is not Ciceronian: for this sense use laudandus, optimus: v. good, estimable. Phr.: I think not myself w. of such honour, haud equidem tali me dignor honore, Virg. Aen. 1, 335.