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                    "description": "hŏnestas (noun F) : honestus\n* Honorableness.\n* (Acc. to honestus, I.) Honorable consideration which a man enjoys, honor, reputation, character, respectability, credit, opp. to turpitudo (class.; cf.: existimatio, dignitas).\n* Lit.: quid est honestas nisi honor perpetuus ad aliquem secundo populi rumore delatus. Lact. 3, 8, fin.: unde pudor, continentia, fuga turpitudinis, appetentia laudis et honestatis?Cic. Rep. 1, 2; cf.: fugiendae turpitudinis adipiscendaeque honestatis causa,id. Tusc. 2, 27, 66; Gell. 1, 3, 23 sq.: nihil esse in vita magnopere expetendum nisi laudem atque honestatem,Cic. Arch. 6, 14; cf.: omnia, quae putant homines expetenda, honestas, gloria, tranquillitas animi atque jucunditas,id. Lael. 22, 84; id. Phil. 7, 5, 14: cogita, ea nobis erepta esse, quae hominibus  non minus quam liberi cara esse debent, honestatem, dignitatem, honores omnes, id. Fam. 4, 5, 2: quas familias honestatis amplitudinisque gratia nomino,on account of their character,id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15: honestate spoliatus,id. Rab. Post. 16, 44; cf.: omni jure atque honestate interdictus, Q. Metell. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 7: fautor infimi generis hominum, odio alienae honestatis,Liv. 1, 47, 11: honestatem omnem amittere,consideration, respect,Cic. Rosc. Am. 39, 114: in eoque (officio) et colendo sita vitae est honestas omnis et in negligendo turpitudo,id. Off. 1, 2, 4; Gell. 1, 3, 24: honestati alicujus convenire (with subj. clause), Paul. Sent. 3, 5, 2.—In plur. (= honores): ceteris ante partis honestatibus atque omni dignitate fortunaque aliquem privare,Cic. Mur. 40, 87.\n* (Acc. to honestus, II.)\n* Honorableness of character, honorable feeling, honor, honesty, probity, integrity, virtue (class.): ubi est autem dignitas, nisi ubi honestas?Cic. Att. 7, 11, 1: nemo est inventus tam perditus, tam ab omni non modo honestate sed etiam simulatione honestatis relictus, qui, etc.,id. Rab. Perd. 8, 23 and 24: (qui summum bonum) suis commodis, non honestate metitur ... honestatem propter se expetere,id. Off. 1, 2, 5 and 6; cf.: cum omnis honestas manet a partibus quatuor, quarum, etc.,id. ib. 1, 43, 152; and: habes undique expletam et perfectam formam honestatis, quae tota his quatuor virtutibus continetur,id. Fin. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 3, 8, 26: et in laude justitia utilitasque tractantur, et in consiliis honestas,id. 3, 4, 16: sunt qui tradant tanta eum (Staberium Erotem) honestate praeditum, ut, etc., such an honorable, noble character; Fr. honnēteté, Suet. Gramm. 13: quod factum causā publicae honestatis vindictam exspectat,Paul. Sent. 5, 4, 21.\n* Transf., of things, beauty, grace (very rare): testudinis,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 2: si est honestas in rebus ipsis, de quibus dicitur, exsistit ex rei natura quidam splendor in verbis,id. de Or. 3, 31, 125."
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