| Meaning | Timidity, the desire to avoid a greater evil, which we dread, by undergoing a lesser evil |
| Related concepts | {3de13 metus} |
| Occurrence | [geomap] Rare. Preoccurs from {3p39} |
| {4p63 ut malum vitet ratione non} ...metus and timor in one demonstration... agit not conforming the definition of agere ... | |
| ... he who is led by fear, and does good in order to escape evil ... | ... qui metu ducitur et bonum timore mali agit ... |