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pŭdor , ōris, m. pudeo,
I.shame, a sense of shame, shamefacedness, shyness; modesty, decency, good manners, propriety, etc. (the general idea, while pudicitia is the particular one).
I. Lit.: “ibi eos pudor deserit,Plaut. Ep. 2, 1, 1; id. Am. 2, 2, 210: “patris,before a father, Ter. And. 1, 5, 27: “pudor deūm,Sil. 1, 58: “ex hac parte pugnat pudor, illinc petulantia: hinc pudicitia, illinc stuprum,Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 25: “ut pudorem rubor, terrorem pallor consequatur,id. Tusc. 4, 8, 19: “moderator cupiditatis pudor,id. Fin. 2, 34, 113: “adulescentuli modestissimi pudor,id. Planc. 11, 27: “pudore a dicendo et timiditate ingenua refugisti,id. de Or. 2, 3, 10; Plin. 19, 8, 43, § 152: civium, respect for one's fellow-citizens, Enn. ap. Non. 160, 6 (Trag. v. 369 Vahl.): “famae,Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14: “pudore fractus,id. Tusc. 2, 21, 48; cf.: “quem paupertatis pudor et fuga tenet,shame on account of poverty, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 24: “stultorum incurata pudor malus ulcera celat,id. ib. 1, 16, 24: “pudor ignominiae maritimae,Liv. 35, 27: “adeo omnia regebat pudor,id. 5, 46: “quae tibi membra pudorem Abstulerunt,Ov. M. 6, 616: “defunctae pudorem tueri,honor, Plin. Ep. 5, 1, 6: “pudor est promissa precesque (meas) referre,I am ashamed, Ov. M. 14, 18: “sit pudor,be ashamed! for shame! Mart. 8, 3, 3; 8, 64, 15; 11, 50, 11: “omnium qui tecum sunt pudor,sense of propriety, scrupulousness, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6, § 18; Quint. 8, 3, 39: “si pudor quaeritur, si probitas, si fides, Mancinus haec attulit,Cic. Rep. 3, 18, 28: “pudor Curioni suadet ut, etc.,Flor. 4, 2, 34.—
II. Transf.
A. Shame, a cause for shame, ignominy, disgrace (not in Cic.): “vulgare alicujus pudorem,Ov. H. 11, 79: “turpique onerata pudore,id. M. 11, 180: “amicitia, quae impetrata, gloriae sibi, non pudori sit,should not be a disgrace, Liv. 34, 58: “ne tibi pudori essem,Liv. 40, 15: “o notam materni pudoris,Just. 3, 4: “pro pudor!oh shame! Petr. 81; Stat. Th. 10, 874; Mart. 10, 68, 6; so, “o pudor,Val. Fl. 8, 267; Flor. 2, 6, 30.—
B. A blush: “desit famosis quae notet ora pudor,Ov. Am. 3, 6, 78; so, in gen., a redness of the skin, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 268; cf. pudoricolor.
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