modesto

modesto is a Latin form of modestus, meaning “modest, restrained, moderate”. It is the ablative singular masculine adjective.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 13.61.1: … declaravit, qui me cum tutorem tum etiam secundum heredem instituerit. eius filio mire studioso et erudito et modesto pecuniam Nicaeenses grandem debent, ad sestertium octogies, et, ut audio, in primis ei volunt solvere.. pergr …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1.5.5: … i viri: is tunc in exsilio erat, a Domitiano relegatus. Ecce tibi Regulus 'Quaero,' inquit, 'Secunde, quid de Modesto sentias.' Vides quod periculum, si respondissem 'bene'; quod flagitium si 'male'. Non possum dicere aliud tun …

Plautus, Bacchides 4.10.1079: scio, fúi ego illa aetate ét feci illa omnía, sed more modésto;

All forms of modestus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.