modestia

"modestia" as the equivalent of the Greek sôphrosunê.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

Il suo pi grande difetto epoch la modestia, epoch riservato, umile, criminal una discrezione esemplare ... un gran signore, un uomo di altri tempi!

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Correctness of conduct (modestia), that is, the desire of pleasing men which is determined by reason, is attributable to piety (as we said in IV.xxxvii. note. i.).

The Ethics 2007

Courtesy, or deference (Humanitas seu modestia), is the desire of acting in a way that should please men, and refraining from that which should displease them.

The Ethics 2007

Sōphrosynē, the most Hellenic of these virtues, was the hardest to transplant, but in some of its nuances it bore a sufficient resemblance to certain traditional Roman values — pudicitia (“chas - tity”), modestia (“moderation”), frugalitas, and verecundia (“modesty”) — to encourage the Romans to naturalize it and even claim it as their own, by ascrib - ing it to some of the heroes and heroines of the early

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

Cicero, as part of his attempt to give Rome a philosophical vo - cabulary, suggested several Latin renderings for sō - phrosynē — temperantia, moderatio, modestia, and frugalitas (Tusculan Disputations 3.8) — of which tem - perantia became the most popular, although by no means the only accepted equivalent.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

Namque uti paucis verum absolvam, post illa tempora quicunque rem publicam agitavere, honestis nominibus, alii sicuti populi jura defenderent, pars quo [198] senatus auctoritas maxima foret, bonum publicum simulantes, pro sua quisque potentia certabant; neque illis modestia neque modus contentionis erat; utrique victoriam crudeliter exercebant.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

"In primis quidam circa claudenda et apienda volumina, sit matura modestia; ut nec præcipiti festinatione solvantur, nec inspectione finita, sina clausura debita dimittantur."

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

Qui Dante fa menzione di Guido Guerra, e meravigliano molti della modestia dell 'autore, che da costui e dalla di lui moglie tragga l'origine sua, mentre poteva derivarla care di gratitudine affettuosa a quella, -- Gualdrada, -- stipito suo, -- dandole nome e tramandandola quasi all' eternità, mentre per sè stessa sarebbe forse rimasta sconosciuta.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

Sed ubi in Africam venit, exercitus ei traditur a Sp. Albino pro consule iners, imbellis, neque periculi neque laboris patiens, lingua quam manu promptior, praedator [255] ex sociis et ipse praeda hostium, sine imperio et modestia habitus.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust