decus

Definitiones

1. honor, distinction, glory
   declension-3, neuter
2. pride, dignity
   declension-3, neuter
3. grace, splendor, ornament, beauty
   declension-3, neuter
4. deeds of honor, honorable achievements
   declension-3, in-plural, neuter

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.”

The ties of loyalty on the one hand, and the necessities of famine on the other, kept the besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy.

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