pudicitia
ὥσπερ λίθοι τε καὶ πλίνθοι καὶ ξύλα καὶ κέραμος, ἀτάκτως μὲν ἐρριμμένα οὐδὲν χρήσιμά ἐστιν → just as stones and bricks, woodwork and tiles, tumbled together in a heap are of no use at all (Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.1.7)
Latin > English
pudicitia pudicitiae N F :: chastity; modesty; purity
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
pŭdīcĭtĭa: ae, f. pudicus,
I 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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
pŭdīcĭtĭa,⁹ æ, f. (pudicus), pudicité, chasteté, pudeur : Pl. Amph. 840 ; pudicitiam expugnare Cic. Cæl. 49 ; eripere Cic. Mil. 9, attenter à la vertu, à la pudeur ; pudor pudicitiaque, pudor et pudicitia, l’honneur (la moralité) et la chasteté, la pureté des mœurs : Cic. Cat. 2, 25 ; Dej. 28 ; Clu. 12 ; Verr. 2, 5, 34 ; Sest. 73 ; Sall. C. 12, 2 || Pudicitia, déesse de la Pureté : Liv. 10, 23, 5.
Latin > German (Georges)
pudīcitia, ae, f. (pudicus), die Schamhaftigkeit, Sittsamkeit, Keuschheit, Züchtigkeit, Plaut., Cic. u.a.: Ggstz. libido, Val. Max.: amittere pupicitiam, Liv. – übtr., der Tauben, Plin. 10, 104. – als Göttin, Pudicitia, u. zwar eine patricia u. eine plebeia, Liv. 10, 23. § 5 u. 7. Fest. 242 (b), 31.
