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.
MODESTY Copy link • MODESTYBushfulness, pudor (general term, as a sense of honor, both as a preventive feeling and as a shame for having done anything disgraceful): pudicitia (natural shame, aversion to be exposed to the gaze of others, and hence, chaste sentiment, bushfulness): verecundia (dread of doing anything that will make us feel ashamed before those whom we respect). (The words are found in this connection and order.) pudor et verecundia; pudicitia et pudor; pudor pudicitiaque. Moderation, modestia (= moderation, unassuming character; opposed to licentia). (The words are found in this connection and order.) pudor et modestia.