Silentium, silentij, n. g. Plin. Sslence: quietnes.Somni silentia.Ouid. Silentium noctis, pro intempesta nocte, quam alij concubium, alij conticinium vocant. Li. Midde night when all things be at quiet.Acre silentium & intentum, & cupidum vlteriora audiendi. Phn. iun. Alta silentia.Ouid.Great silence.Alti & egregij silentij homo, Ho.A very close man that can well keepe counsayle, and not vtter his mynde.Amica silentia taciræ Lunæ. Virgil. The fauorable wan of the moone not shyning.Ceca silentia. Sil. A very darke & quiet time of the night.Fidele silentium. Horat. Faithfull silence not vitering fecretes.Muta silentia noctis, Ouid.Nocturna silentia. Apuleius. Rabiola silentia. Perl. Sacrum filentium. Hor. Seuera file ntia noctis, Lucret.Suspica silentium. Tacit. Taciturna silentia. Ouid.Tranquilla silentia noctis.Stat. Adesse cum silentio, Plaut.To be present and make no noyse.Agere silentium de aliquo. Quint. Not to speake of one.Agere alta filentia. Oui. To be very still and make no noyss at all.Animaduertere cum silentio, Vide CVM præpositienem.Audiri silentio.Cic.Malam esse caulam silentio confiteri. Quint. By his filence to acknowledge his cause to be ill.Continere suos silentio.Liu.To keepe his company quiec without noyse.Descendere in silentium. Quint. To holde his peace.Dissimnlare aliquid silentio, Quin.To let a thing passe saying nothing, as though he knew it not.Facere silentium. Quint. To cause men to keepe silence.Longa silentia facere.Ouid.Facere silentia maiestate manus. Pers. Silentio aliquid ferre. Ci. To take a thing paciently, saying nothing.Iubere silentia Lucan.To commaund silence.Eximia est virrus præstare silcntia rebus.Ouid.It is an erceslent vertue to hold his peace where matter requireth.Rumpere silentia sermone Ouid.Rumpere taciturna silentia Lucre.Suadere silentia digito.Ouid.To make a sign with his singer that they should be slill.Silentium est cansarum & iuris.Cic.There is no pleading of causes or ministring of Instice: it is not tearme.De Partho silentium est. Ci. They speake not a word of the Parthian.Tenuere silentia cuncti.Ouid.They all kept silence or helde their peace and sayd nothing.Furibunda silentia torquentillam Stat.Tramittere aliquem silentio.Tacit.To lette one passe and not speake of him.Transire quidpiam silentio. Quint. Silentio, vice Aduerbij.Stilly: without noyse. Liu Nocte deinde silentio Papyrium Dictatorem dixit. In % night when all thinges were quiet.
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sĭlentĭum, ii, n. [sileo]. I.Lit.A. In gen., a being still or silent, noiselessness, stillness, silence (freq. and class.; cf. taciturnitas): otium et silentium est, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 35: et ipse conticuit et ceteris silentium fuit, Cic. de Or. 3, 35, 143; cf. id. ib. 1, 35, 160; id. Rep. 2, 38, 64: auditus est magno silentio, id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1: silentio auditus, Caes. B. C. 3, 19, 3: huic facietis Fabulae silentium, Plaut. Am. prol. 15: fac silentium, id. Pers. 4, 3, 50; cf. Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59: nec longa silentia feci,
kept silence
, Ov. F. 1, 183: silentio facto, silence being obtained, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 10; Liv. 24, 7 fin.; Petr. 14 fin.; Quint. 2, 5, 6 al.; also with the signif. to make or procure silence: Fabius cum silentium classico fecisset, Liv. 2, 45; Tac. H. 3, 20; Curt. 10, 6, 3; Phaedr. 5, 5, 15: facere silentia majestate manūs, Pers. 4, 7: tribuni plebis, cum inviti silentium tenuissent, Liv. 5, 9, 4; so, tenere silentium, id. 1, 16, 2; 1, 28, 8; 9, 38, 14: silentium obtinere, id. 1, 16, 2; cf.: obstinatum silentium obtinuit, id. 9, 38, 14: tenuere silentia cuncti, Ov. M. 1, 206: se silentium fieri jussisse, Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59; Luc. 1, 298: silentium imperare, Sen. Vit. Beat. 26, 7; Tac. G. 11: silentium significare,
to give a signal for silence
, Cic. Brut. 84, 290: cum silentio animadvertite, Ter. Eun. prol. 44: Athenienses cum silentio auditi sunt, Liv. 38, 10, 4: cum silentio ad aliquem convenire, id. 7, 35, 1; so, cum silentio, id. 25, 9, 15: agere per silentium, Ter. Heaut. prol. 36; cf. id. Hec. prol. alt. 21; id. Phorm. prol. 30: per silentium noctis, Liv. 3, 42, 3; Tac. A. 4, 53; id. Agr. 3: ego illas omnes res egi silentio, Cic. Prov. Cons. 12, 29; cf.: ut nulla fere pars orationis silentio praeteriretur,
in silence
,
without applause
, id. Brut. 22, 88; more freq.: praeterire silentio,
to pass over in silence
,
to say nothing about
, id. Sull. 21, 62; id. Part. Or. 23, 82; id. Phil. 13, 6 Orell. N. cr.;Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 6; for which: silentio transire, Cic. Att. 2, 19, 3; Quint. 2, 3, 1; 5, 12, 23: periculosissimum locum silentio sum praetervectus, Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 8: transmittere aliquem, Tac. A. 1, 13 fin. al.; cf.: cum M. Tullius de omnibus (oratoribus) aetatis suae silentium egerit,
keeps silence
,
is silent
, Quint. 10, 1, 38: tenere se intra silentium, Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 8; 7, 6, 6: de Partho silentium est,
nothing is said
, Cic. Att. 5, 16, 4: ut laudem eorum a silentio vindicarem, i. e.
obscurity
, id. de Or. 2, 2, 7; Sen. Ep. 21, 5; Plin. Ep. 9, 14, 1: gravissimas plagas ferre silentio, Cic. Tusc. 2, 20, 46: quam maximum silentium haberi jubet, Sall. J. 99, 1: lacrimae omnibus obortae, et diu maestum silentium tenuit,
prevailed
, Liv. 40, 8, 20.—Poet.: fer opem furtoque silentia deme, remove silence from, i. e. tell of, disclose, Ov. M. 2, 700.—Of the stillness, silence, dead of night: silentio noctis Caesar ex castris egressus, Caes. B. G. 7, 36: in silentio noctis, id. ib. 7, 26; cf.: se vocem noctis silentio audisse clariorem humanā, Liv. 5, 32: paulo ante mediam noctem silentio ex oppido egressi, Caes. B. G. 7, 11; cf. id. ib. 7, 18; 7, 60; Liv. 8, 23, 9, 38.—Poet., in plur.: silentia noctis, Lucr. 4, 461; Stat. Th. 1, 441: quid me alta silentia cogis Rumpere, Verg. A. 10, 63; Ov. M. 7, 184: taciturna silentia, Lucr. 4, 585: torquent illum furibunda silentia, Stat. Th. 10, 890.—The stillness, quietness of the fields: nactus silentia ruris, Ov. M. 1, 232; cf.: vidit desolatas agere alta silentia terras, id. ib. 1, 349.—Of wood that makes no noise, does not snap, Plin. 16, 16, 28, 70.—B. In partic., in augural lang., freedom from disturbance; hence, faultlessness, perfectness in the taking of auspices: id silentium dicimus in auspiciis, quod omni vitio caret, etc., Cic. Div. 2, 34, 71; cf. Fest. p. 348 Müll.; s. v. sinistrum, p. 351 ib.; and v. Becker, Antiq. vol. 2, pars 3, p. 76 sq.—II.Transf., a standstill (opp. to motion or activity); cessation, repose, inaction, tranquillity, etc. (rare but class.): mundus caeli vastus constitit silentio, Enn. ap. Macr. 6, 2 med.: silentium perpetuum judiciorum ac fori, Cic. Pis. 14, 32; cf. Tac. Agr. 39: vitam silentio transire, Sall. C. 1, 1: silentium otiumque inter armatos, Liv. 2, 45: biduum deinde silentium fuit neutris transgredientibus amnem, id. 37, 38: idem praeturae tenor et silentium, Tac. Agr. 6: quantum distant a morte silentia vitae?Sil. 3, 145.