propudium

1.

prō̆pŭdĭum, ĭi, n. [pro-pudet].

I.

A shameful or infamous action (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

propudium dicebant, cum maledicto nudare turpitudinem volebant, quasi porro pudendum. Quidam propudium putant dici, a quo pudor et pudicitia procul sint,

Fest. p. 227 Müll.:

propudii aliquem insimulare,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 11.—In plur.:

hoc cinere poto propudia virorum inhiberi,

Plin. 28, 8, 32, § 122.—

II.

Transf., concr., a shameful person, vile wretch, a rascal, villain, a term of abuse (class.):

quid ais, propudium?

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 34; id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7; cf. id. Poen. 1, 2, 60:

propudium illud et portentum L. Antonius,

Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 8; App M. 8, p. 215, 15.

2.

prō̆pŭdĭum, a dub. reading:

moraris tanquam propudium ignores,

Petr. 99; perh. a signal to set sail (Bücheler), or a vulgar form for propediem.