pŭdor, ōris, m. [pudeo], 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.