castus

castus adj.with comp.and sup.

2 CAD-, morally pure, unpolluted, spotless, guiltless, virtuous : mentes: vita castissima: quis hoc adulescente castior?V.: populus frugi castusque, H.: se castos servare: castissima domus: signa, proofs of innocence , O.: res familiaris casta a cruore civili. — Plur m . as subst: probrum castis inferre. — Chaste, unpolluted, virtuous, continent : (mulieres) castiores: Minerva, H.: matres, V.: poeta, Ct.: ius matrimonii: voltus, O.— Pious, religious, holy, sacred : Aeneas, H.: sacerdotes, V.: qui castam contionem defendo, i. e. auspicato in loco: verbenae, H.: crines, O.: laurus, Tb.: nemus, Ta.— Free from avarice, disinterested : homo: castissimus homo.