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|lshtext=<b>hŏnor</b>: or hŏnos (the [[latter]] form [[almost]] [[exclusively]] in Cic., [[who]] has [[honor]] [[only]] Phil. 9, 6<br /><b>I</b> fin., and Fragm. pro Tull. 21; also in Caes., Liv., Sall., Prop., Verg., Nep., and Curt.; [[but]] [[honor]] in Sen., Vell., Ov.; and Hor. and Tac. [[use]] [[both]] forms. Honos [[was]] [[antiquated]] in Quintilian's [[day]], v. Quint. 1, 4, 13; Neue, Formenl. 1, 168 sq.), ōris (archaic gen. [[honorus]], [[like]] venerus, Lex Puteol. ap. Haubold, n. 7), m. perh. Sanscr. hu-, [[call]], [[honor]], [[repute]], [[esteem]] in [[which]] a [[person]] or [[thing]] is held.<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: cum [[honos]] [[sit]] [[praemium]] virtutis judicio studioque civium delatum ad aliquem, qui eum sententiis, qui suffragiis [[adeptus]] est, is mihi et [[honestus]] et [[honoratus]] videtur. Qui [[autem]] occasione [[aliqua]] [[etiam]] invitis suis civibus [[nactus]] est [[imperium]], hunc [[nomen]] honoris adeptum, non honorem [[puto]], Cic. Brut. 81, 281; cf.: is [[autem]], qui [[vere]] appellari potest [[honos]], non [[invitamentum]] ad [[tempus]], sed perpetuae virtutis est [[praemium]], id. Fam. 10, 10, 1 sq.: [[honos]] alit artes omnesque incenduntur ad studia [[gloria]], id. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; so [[with]] [[gloria]], id. Part. 24, 87: si [[honos]] is fuit, majorem [[tibi]] habere non potui, id. Fam. 5, 20, 2: [[quanto]] et [[honor]] hic [[illo]] est amplior, etc., id. Att. 9, 2, A, 1: [[gratia]], dignitate, honore [[auctus]], Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 8: amplissimis honoribus et praemiis decorari ... [[honos]] [[maximus]], Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 232: ut eum amplissimo regis honore et nomine affeceris, id. Deiot. 5, 14: aliquem praecipuo honore habere, Caes. B. G. 5, 54, 4: suum cuique honorem et gradum reddere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 136: [[apud]] eum sunt in honore et in [[pretio]], id. ib. 28, 77; Caes. B. C. 3, 61, 1; so [[with]] in: in honore magno esse, Cic. Brut. 8, 30: summo in honore, id. de Or. 1, 55, 235; id. Off. 2, 19, 65: tanto in honore, id. Tusc. 2, 2, 4; Caes. B. C. 1, 77, 2; 3, 47, 7; Liv. 42, 6, 12; [[but]] [[without]] in: Jovem [[autem]] [[quanto]] honore in suo templo fuisse arbitramini, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 129: ([[Druides]]) magno sunt [[apud]] eos honore, Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 4; 5, 54, 5; Liv. 1, 40, 1; Tac. A. 14, 6; id. H. 1, 6, 4: honorem accipere, Cic. Att. 9, 2, A, 1: honorem huic generi (i. e. poëtis) non fuisse declarat [[oratio]] Catonis, id. Tusc. 1, 2, 3: honori summo nostro Miloni fuit qui P. Clodii [[conatus]] compressit, id. Off. 2, 17, 58; cf.: [[quod]] (i. e. [[medium]] ex [[tribus]] sedere) [[apud]] Numidas honori ducitur, Sall. J. 11, 3: [[rite]] suum Baccho dicemus honorem, [[honor]], [[praise]], Verg. G. 2, 393: tanto [[ille]] [[vobis]] [[quam]] mihi pejorem honorem habuit, [[worse]] [[honor]], i. e. greater dishonor or [[disgrace]], Q. Metell. ap. Gell. 12, 9, 4; cf.: exsilii [[honor]], i. e. honorable [[exile]], Tac. H. 1, 21.—Personified: [[tute]] [[pone]] te latebis [[facile]], ne inveniat te [[honos]], Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 37.—Of inanim. and abstr. things, [[honor]], [[esteem]], [[value]]: physicae [[quoque]] non [[sine]] [[causa]] [[tributus]] [[idem]] est [[honos]], Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 73; id. Fam. 7, 26, 2: [[ornatus]] [[ille]] [[admirabilis]], [[propter]] quem ascendit in [[tantum]] honorem [[eloquentia]], id. Or. 36, 125: [[multa]] renascentur quae jam cecidere, cadentque Quae [[nunc]] sunt in honore vocabula, si volet [[usus]], Hor. A. P. 71: [[apud]] antiquos piscium nobilissimus [[habitus]] [[acipenser]] nullo in honore est, Plin. 9, 17, 27, § 60; 19, 6, 32, § 104: vino Pramnio [[etiam]] [[nunc]] [[honos]] durat, id. 14, 4, 6, § 54 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Public [[honor]], [[official]] [[dignity]], [[office]], [[post]], [[preferment]] (cf. [[munus]]): ita [[quaestor]] [[sum]] [[factus]], ut mihi honorem illum tum non [[solum]] datum, sed [[etiam]] [[creditum]] ac [[commissum]] putem, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 35: [[ille]] honoris [[gradus]], id. Sull. 29, 82: equites Romanos in tribunicium restituit honorem, Caes. B. C. 1, 77 fin.: extraordinarium honorem appetere, id. ib. 1, 32, 2: hic [[ipse]] [[honos]] (sc. [[dictatura]]), delatus ad me, [[testis]] est innocentiae meae, Liv. 9, 26, 14: curulem adferri sellam eo jussit ([[Flavius]]) ac sede honoris sui inimicos spectavit, id. 9, 46, 9: honore abiit, Suet. Aug. 26; cf.: deposito honore, id. ib. 36: [[paene]] honore [[summotus]] est, id. Claud. 9: [[honor]] [[municipalis]] est [[administratio]] rei publicae cum dignitatis gradu, [[sive]] cum sumtu, [[sive]] [[sine]] erogatione contingens, Dig. 50, 4, 14 pr.: honorem aut magistratum gerere, Gai Inst. 1, 96: clari [[velamen]] honoris sufficiunt tunicae summis aedilibus albae, Juv. 3, 178: [[tempus]] honoris, the [[term]] of [[office]], id. 8, 150: honorem militiae largiri, [[military]] honors, id. 7, 88.—In plur.: populum Romanum hominibus novis industriis [[libenter]] honores mandare semperque mandasse, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 37, § 81; cf.: qui ([[populus]]) [[stultus]] honores Saepe dat indignis, Hor. S. 1, 6, 15: ascendisset ad honores, [[nisi]], etc., Cic. Brut. 68, 241: honoribus amplissimis et laboribus maximis perfungi, id. Fam. 1, 8, 3: obrepisti ad honores errore hominum, id. Pis. 1, 1: [[Catulus]] maximis honoribus [[usus]], Sall. C. 49, 2: [[magistratus]] [[atque]] honores capere, Suet. Aug. 26: largiri [[opes]], honores, Tac. A. 11, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Particular phrases.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Honoris [[causa]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Out of [[respect]], in [[order]] to [[show]] [[honor]] ([[class]].): C. [[Curio]], quem ego hominem honoris [[potius]] [[quam]] contumeliae [[causa]] nominatum [[volo]], Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 18: quem honoris [[causa]] [[nomino]], id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6: toties hunc et virum [[bonum]] esse dixisti et honoris [[causa]] appellasti, id. Rosc. Com. 6, 18: Campanis equitum honoris [[causa]], [[civitas]] [[sine]] suffragio [[data]], Liv. 8, 14, 10; 32, 34, 8; 39, 22, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For the [[sake]] of ([[ante]]-[[class]].): ejus honoris [[causa]], feci thensaurum ut hic reperiret Euclio, Plaut. Aul. prol. 25: mei honoris [[causa]] mittere coquos, id. ib. 3, 4, 4: huc honoris vostri [[venio]] [[gratia]], id. Am. 3, 1, 7; id. Stich. 2, 2, 14: vestri honoris [[causa]], Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 35.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Praefari or dicere honorem, to [[make]] an [[excuse]] in [[saying]] [[any]] [[thing]] [[that]] [[may]] be [[distasteful]] = by [[your]] [[leave]] or [[saving]] [[your]] [[presence]]: si dicimus: [[ille]] patrem strangulavit, honorem non praefamur. Sin de Aurelia aliquid aut Lollia, [[honos]]. [[praefandus]] est, Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 4; for [[which]]: haec sunt quae retulisse fas [[sit]], ac pleraque ex his non [[nisi]] honore [[dicto]], Plin. 28, 8, 24, § 87; cf. also: [[honos]] auribus [[sit]], i. e. [[pardon]] the [[expression]], Curt. 5, 1, 22.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Personified, Hŏnor or Hŏnos, as a [[deity]] whose [[temple]] adjoined [[that]] of Virtus, and [[who]] [[was]] worshipped [[with]] [[uncovered]] [[head]], Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 54, § 121; id. Sest. 54, 116; id. Leg. 2, 23, 58; Val. Max. 1, 1, 8; Liv. 27, 25, 7 sqq.; Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 21; Inscr. Orell. 543.<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Concr., [[any]] [[thing]] given as a [[mark]] of [[honor]], an honorary [[gift]], a [[reward]], [[acknowledgment]], [[recompense]], [[fee]]; a [[sacrifice]]; [[funeral]] rites; a [[legacy]], etc. ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and [[since]] the Aug. [[period]]): Itan [[tandem]] hanc majores famam tradiderunt [[tibi]] tui, ... honori posterorum tuorum ut [[vindex]] fieres, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 18: [[Curio]] misi, ut [[medico]] [[honos]] haberetur et [[tibi]] daret [[quod]] [[opus]] esset, Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 3; Vitr. 10, 22: geminum pugnae proponit honorem, Verg. A. 5, 365: nil [[victor]] honoris Ex opibus [[posco]], Sil. 9, 199: dicite, Pierides, [[quonam]] donetur honore [[Neaera]], Tib. 3, 1, 5: nec [[Telamon]] [[sine]] honore recessit Hesioneque [[data]] potitur, Ov. M. 11, 216: arae sacrificiis fument, honore, donis cumulentur, Liv. 8, 33, 21: divūm templis indicit honorem, Verg. A. 1, 632; Ov. F. 4, 409: nullos [[aris]] adoleret honores, id. M. 8, 742: meritos [[aris]] mactavit honores, Verg. A. 3, 118: honore sepulturae carere, Cic. de Sen. 20, 75; id. Inv. 1, 55, 108: cernit ibi maestos et mortis honore carentes Leucaspim, etc., Verg. A. 6, 333; cf. Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 45: [[mille]] viri, qui supremum comitentur honorem, Verg. A. 11, 61: [[solutus]] [[honos]] cineri, Val. Fl. 3, 357: honorem habere alicui, Curt. 3, 12, 13: omnem honorem funeri servare, id. 4, 10, 23: communem sepulturae honorem alicui tribuere, Suet. Aug. 17: nec [[enim]] quaerimus, cui acquiratur, sed cui [[honos]] [[habitus]] est, the honorary [[legacy]], Dig. 37, 5, 3; 32, 1, 11: sepulturae honore [[spoliatus]], Val. Max. 4, 7, 1; 9, 8, 1 fin.; cf.: supremitatis [[honor]], Amm. 31, 13: supremus condicionis humanae [[honos]], Val. Max. 6, 3, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Objectively, a [[quality]] [[that]] brings [[honor]] or [[consideration]], an [[ornament]], [[grace]], [[charm]], [[beauty]] ([[poet]].): silvis Aquilo decussit honorem, Verg. G. 2, 404: [[December]] silvis honorem decutit, Hor. Epod. 11, 6; cf.: [[populeus]] cui frondis [[honor]], Val. Fl. 6, 296: [[notus]] in [[vultus]] [[honor]], Hor. Epod. 17, 18; Stat. Th. 10, 788.—In plur.: laetos oculis afflārat honores, Verg. A. 1, 591; cf. Sil. 12, 244: hic [[tibi]] [[copia]] Manabit ad plenum benigno Ruris honorum opulenta [[cornu]], Hor. C. 1, 17, 16: nullum ver [[usquam]] nullique aestatis honores, Sil. 3, 487.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> A [[magistrate]], [[office]]-holder: sed cum [[summus]] [[honor]] finito computet [[anno]], [[sportula]] [[quid]] referat, Juv. 1, 117; cf. v. 110.