Possible Clues:

• Lowered in status or reputation
• Humbled Europeans separately interrupting inquiry
• Humbled by being stingy, indeed
• Put down false name in legal document
• Given lower status
• Humiliated and perhaps distressed as a lion fed mouse's tail
• Degraded, put down
• Lower status unpleasant indeed
• Belittled
• Humiliated by contract containing curtailed financial resources