pŭdīcĭtĭa (noun F) : pudicus
* 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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