(adjective) : dĕcōrus, a, um, decor, Gr. εὐπρεπής.
* Becoming, fitting, seemly, proper, suitable, decorous (class.).
* With dat.: QVAE QVOIQVE DIVO DECORAE GRATAEQVE SINT HOSTIAE PROVIDENTO,Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 20: color albus praecipue decorus deo est,id. ib. 2, 18, 45: quod virginitati decorum,Liv. 2, 13; Quint. 11, 3, 101; cf. ib. § 104, and 11, 1, 33 al.: decorum erat tum ipsis capessere pugnam ducibus,Liv. 2, 6; cf. Tac. A. 1, 12. —*
* Absol., decorated, ornamented, adorned; elegant, fine, beautiful, handsome (not so in Cic.; but freq. in the poets and historians, esp. in Hor. and Tacit.): delubra deum, * Lucr. 2, 352; cf.: aedes,Hor. Od. 1, 30, 3; and: supplicationes et alia decora,Tac. A. 3, 47: galeae ensesque,Verg. A. 11, 194: insigne clipei,id. ib. 2, 392: arma,Sall. C. 7, 4 al.: membra juventae,Verg. A. 4, 559; cf.: oculi,id. ib. 11, 480: pectus,id. ib. 4, 589: os,Hor. S. 1, 8, 21: facies,id. ib. 1, 2, 87; Sall. J. 6, 1: caput,Ov. M. 6, 167: juventa,Tac. H. 1, 53: genus,id. A. 6, 27 al.: palaestra,noble, skilful,Hor. Od. 1, 10, 3: verba,id. S. 2, 7, 41; id. Ep. 2, 1, 73: temporibus Augusti dicendis non defuere decora ingenia,Tac. A. 1, 1.—Sup.: Zeus decorissimus, Apul. Mag. 4, p. 276, 4.
* Subst.: dĕ-cōrum, i, n., in Cic. for the Gr. πρέπον, that which is seemly, suitable; seemliness, fitness, propriety, decorum (for which Quint. uses decor; cf.: decus init.): ut in vita, sic in oratione nihil est difficilius quam quid deceat videre. Πρέπον appellant hoc Graeci: nos dicamus sane decorum; Cic. Or. 21, 70; cf.: id, quod Graece πρέπον dicitur, decorum dici Latine potest, etc., id. Off. 1, 27 sq.; cf. id. ib. 1, 35; Tac. H. 1, 71.—Plur.: vota pro reditu ejus et alia decora,id. ib. 3, 47: plura tribuere,id. ib. 3, 5.
* With pro: decorum pro causa ratus,Tac. H. 3, 7.—(ε) Absol.: decorus est senis sermo, quietus et remissus,Cic. de Sen. 9, 28; cf.: vox et actio,Quint. 10, 1, 17: silentium,Hor. Od. 4, 1, 35 et saep.: nihil nisi quod honestum decorumque sit admirari,Cic. Off. 1, 20: omnino si quicquam est decorum, nihil est profecto magis, quam aequabilitas universae vitae,id. ib. 1, 31, 111; Quint. 5, 10, 40 al.: actuariis minutis Patras accedere ... non satis visum est decorum,Cic. Att. 5, 9; so with a subject-clause, id. ib. 4, 16, 3: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,Hor. Od. 3, 2, 13; Ov. M. 9, 6 (opp. turpe); cf. ib. 13, 309 al.
* With abl., adorned with any thing; shining, beautiful with any thing: ductores ostro decori,Verg. A. 5, 133; cf. id. ib. 12, 126: Phoebus fulgente arcu,Hor. Carm. Sec. 61: Bacchus aureo cornu,id. Od. 2, 19, 30: Medi pharetrā,id. ib. 2, 16, 2: dea formāque armisque,Ov. M. 2, 773: satis decorus etiam Graeca facundia,Tac. H. 2, 80.— With ab: voces decorae ab aspectu,Col. 6, 1.Adv.: dĕcōrē.
* (Acc. to no. I.) Suitably, properly, decorously: ut ea si non decore, at quam minime indecore facere possimus,Cic. Off. 1, 31 fin.; cf. id. de Or. 1, 32, 144; 3, 47, 182; Sall. J. 100 fin.—*
* (acc. to no. II.), elegantly, charmingly, beautifully: formata d. Jovis species, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20 (cf. above, decora delubra deum).

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