animus submissus or demissus (opposed to animus elatus): modestia: verecundia (modesty, q. v.): humilitas (lowering behavior; Cic., Invent., 1, 56, 109; ☞ as a virtue, in the Christian sense, first in Lactantius) to show humility, submisse se gerere: with humility, submisse; modeste.