vĕrēcundus — Lewis & Short
vĕrēcundus, a, um, adj.vereor,
I feeling shame (at any thing good or bad), shamefaced, bashful, shy, coy, modest, diffident, etc.
I Lit.:
nimis verecunda es (uxor),Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 22:
decet verecundum esse adulescentem,id. As. 5, 1, 6:
homo non nimis verecundus,Cic. de Or. 2, 88, 361:
misi ad te quattuor admonitores non nimis verecundos,id. Fam. 9, 8, 1:
innocentes et verecundi,id. Leg. 1, 19, 50:
populus,Hor. A. P. 207:
saepe verecundum laudasti,id. Ep. 1, 7, 37: Bacchus, moderate, id. C. 1, 27, 3 (cf.:
modicus Liber,id. ib. 1, 18, 7):
orator in transferendis verecundus et parcus,Cic. Or. 24, 81:
vultus,Ov. M. 14, 840:
ore loqui,Mart. 8, 1, 2:
color,a blush, Hor. Epod. 17, 21:
rubor,Ov. M. 1, 484:
pudor,id. Tr. 4, 4, 50:
verecunda debet esse translatio,Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 165:
oratio,Quint. 11, 3, 96:
verba,id. 10, 1, 9:
causa,id. 4, 5, 19:
vita,Ov. Tr. 2, 354.—With subj.clause:
transire in diversa subsellia, parum verecundum est,Quint. 11, 3, 133:
hoc dicere verecundum est,i. e. I am ashamed, id. 7, 1, 56.—Comp.:
verecundior in postulando,Cic. Phil. 14, 5, 11:
verecundior in loquendo,id. Fam. 7, 33, 2:
partes,i. e. the private parts, Arn. 4, 133:
translatio,Quint. 9, 2, 41:
confessio,id. 4, 2, 8.—Sup.:
Pompejus in appetendis honoribus immodicus, in gerendis verecundissimus,Vell. 2, 33, 3.—
II Transf., objectively, worthy of reverence, venerable (late Lat.):
nomen populi Romani,Amm. 14, 6, 6; cf. id. 21, 16, 11; 30, 8, 4:
praetor,Capitol. Ver. 8.—Adv. (acc. to I.), shamefacedly, bashfully, shyly, modestly.
(a) Form vĕrēcundē, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 6; id. Brut. 22, 87; Liv. 26, 49, 16.—*
(b) Form vĕrēcundĭter, Pompon. ap. Non. 516, 23.—
b Comp.:
verecundius,Cic. de Or. 1, 37, 171; Quint. 4, 1, 13; 11, 1, 84.