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In partic. Public honor, official dignity, office, post, preferment (cf. munus): ita quaestor sum factus, ut mihi honorem illum tum non solum datum, sed etiam creditum ac commissum putem, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 35: ille honoris gradus, id. Sull. 29, 82: equites Romanos in tribunicium restituit honorem, Caes. B. C. 1, 77 fin.: extraordinarium honorem appetere, id. ib. 1, 32, 2: hic ipse honos (sc. dictatura), delatus ad me, testis est innocentiae meae, Liv. 9, 26, 14: curulem adferri sellam eo jussit (Flavius) ac sede honoris sui inimicos spectavit, id. 9, 46, 9: honore abiit, Suet. Aug. 26; cf.: deposito honore, id. ib. 36: paene honore summotus est, id. Claud. 9: honor municipalis est administratio rei publicae cum dignitatis gradu, sive cum sumtu, sive sine erogatione contingens, Dig. 50, 4, 14 pr.: honorem aut magistratum gerere, Gai Inst. 1, 96: clari velamen honoris sufficiunt tunicae summis aedilibus albae, Juv. 3, 178: tempus honoris, the term of office, id. 8, 150: honorem militiae largiri, military honors, id. 7, 88.—In plur.: populum Romanum hominibus novis industriis libenter honores mandare semperque mandasse, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 37, § 81; cf.: qui (populus) stultus honores Saepe dat indignis, Hor. S. 1, 6, 15: ascendisset ad honores, nisi, etc., Cic. Brut. 68, 241: honoribus amplissimis et laboribus maximis perfungi, id. Fam. 1, 8, 3: obrepisti ad honores errore hominum, id. Pis. 1, 1: Catulus maximis honoribus usus, Sall. C. 49, 2: magistratus atque honores capere, Suet. Aug. 26: largiri opes, honores, Tac. A. 11, 12.
Particular phrases. Honoris causa. Out of respect, in order to show honor (class.): C. Curio, quem ego hominem honoris potius quam contumeliae causa nominatum volo, Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 18: quem honoris causa nomino, id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6: toties hunc et virum bonum esse dixisti et honoris causa appellasti, id. Rosc. Com. 6, 18: Campanis equitum honoris causa, civitas sine suffragio data, Liv. 8, 14, 10; 32, 34, 8; 39, 22, 2.
For the sake of (ante-class.): ejus honoris causa, feci thensaurum ut hic reperiret Euclio, Plaut. Aul. prol. 25: mei honoris causa mittere coquos, id. ib. 3, 4, 4: huc honoris vostri venio gratia, id. Am. 3, 1, 7; id. Stich. 2, 2, 14: vestri honoris causa, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 35.
Praefari or dicere honorem, to make an excuse in saying any thing that may be distasteful = by your leave or saving your presence: si dicimus: ille patrem strangulavit, honorem non praefamur. Sin de Aurelia aliquid aut Lollia, honos. praefandus est, Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 4; for which: haec sunt quae retulisse fas sit, ac pleraque ex his non nisi honore dicto, Plin. 28, 8, 24, § 87; cf. also: honos auribus sit, i. e. pardon the expression, Curt. 5, 1, 22.
Personified, Hŏnor or Hŏnos, as a deity whose temple adjoined that of Virtus, and who was worshipped with uncovered head, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 54, § 121; id. Sest. 54, 116; id. Leg. 2, 23, 58; Val. Max. 1, 1, 8; Liv. 27, 25, 7 sqq.; Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 21; Inscr. Orell. 543. Transf. Concr., any thing given as a mark of honor, an honorary gift, a reward, acknowledgment, recompense, fee; a sacrifice; funeral rites; a legacy, etc. (mostly poet. and since the Aug. period): Itan tandem hanc majores famam tradiderunt tibi tui, ... honori posterorum tuorum ut vindex fieres, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 18: Curio misi, ut medico honos haberetur et tibi daret quod opus esset, Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 3; Vitr. 10, 22: geminum pugnae proponit honorem, Verg. A. 5, 365: nil victor honoris Ex opibus posco, Sil. 9, 199: dicite, Pierides, quonam donetur honore Neaera, Tib. 3, 1, 5: nec Telamon sine honore recessit Hesioneque data potitur, Ov. M. 11, 216: arae sacrificiis fument, honore, donis cumulentur, Liv. 8, 33, 21: divūm templis indicit honorem, Verg. A. 1, 632; Ov. F. 4, 409: nullos aris adoleret honores, id. M. 8, 742: meritos aris mactavit honores, Verg. A. 3, 118: honore sepulturae carere, Cic. de Sen. 20, 75; id. Inv. 1, 55, 108: cernit ibi maestos et mortis honore carentes Leucaspim, etc., Verg. A. 6, 333; cf. Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 45: mille viri, qui supremum comitentur honorem, Verg. A. 11, 61: solutus honos cineri, Val. Fl. 3, 357: honorem habere alicui, Curt. 3, 12, 13: omnem honorem funeri servare, id. 4, 10, 23: communem sepulturae honorem alicui tribuere, Suet. Aug. 17: nec enim quaerimus, cui acquiratur, sed cui honos habitus est, the honorary legacy, Dig. 37, 5, 3; 32, 1, 11: sepulturae honore spoliatus, Val. Max. 4, 7, 1; 9, 8, 1 fin.; cf.: supremitatis honor, Amm.