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pŭdīcĭtĭa , ae, f. pudicus,
I.shamefacedness, modesty, chastity, virtue (freq. and class.): “hinc pudicitia, illinc stuprum,Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 25: “pudicitia et pudor,Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 210; id. Stich. 1, 2, 44; Cic. Clu. 5, 12: “nec suae nec alienae pudicitiae parcere,id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8: “pudicitiam alienam spoliare,id. Cael. 18, 42: “pudicitiam eripere alicui,id. Mil. 4, 9: “pudicitiam alicujus expugnare,id. Cael. 20, 49: “delibare,Suet. Aug. 68: “prostituere,id. Ner. 29: “quid salvi possit esse mulieri, pudicitiā amissā,Liv. 1, 58; Tac. A. 4, 3: “in propatulo habere,Sall. C. 13, 3: “pudorem, pudicitiam ... nihil pensi habere,id. ib. 12, 2; cf.: “pretium pudicitiae,Vulg. Exod. 21, 10.—Pudicitia, personified as a goddess, and worshipped under two names, patricia and plebeia (the statue of the former stood in the Forum boarium at Rome), Liv. 10, 23, 5 and 7; Fest. p. 242 Müll.—Transf., of doves: “pudicitia illis prima, et neutri nota adulteria,Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 104.
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    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 20.49
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 58
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