HONESTUS, Honestas, are often used Wisd. vii. 11.to signify riches: All good things together came to me, with wisdom and innumerable riches in her hands: Innumerabilis honestas per manus illius. And in another passage, In Wisd. viii. 18.operibus manuum illius honestas sine defectione. And speaking of Jacob, honestavit Wisd. x. 10.illum in laboribus: Wisdom made him rich in his travels, it made him rich, honestum fecit illum.
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