Pudicítia, pudicítiæ, f. g. Pli. Chastitie: cleannesse of liuing: puritie.Impenetrabilis pudicitia. Tac. Inuiolata.Ouid.Læsa.Ouid. Obstinata. Liu. Attentatur pudicitia, Vide ATTENTO.Colere pudicitiam, Vide COLO.Eripere pudicitiam alicui. Ci. To rauish.Imminuere pudicitiam virginis, Vide IMMINVO.Non parcere suæ, nec alienæ pudicitiæ. C. Parcat iuuentus pudicitiæ suæ, ne spoliet alienam. Ci.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pŭdīcĭtĭa, ae, f. [pudicus], 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.