Abscondo, abscondis, abscondi, abscónditum, penult. cor. abscóndere. To hide: to keepe close.In tenebris abscondere. Cæcil. In terram. Col. Inter arbores abscondere. Pomp. Abscondere fugam furto.To flie or steale away priuily.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
abs-condo, condi and condĭdi, condĭtum and consum, 3, v. a. (abscondi, Tac. H. 3, 68; Curt. 6, 6; Gell. 17, 9; Caecil. and Pompon. ap. Non. 75, 25: abscondidi, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 25; Sil. 8, 192: absconsum, Quint. Decl. 17, 15), to put away, conceal carefully, hide, secrete (the access. idea of a careful concealment distinguishes this word from its synn. abdo, celo, abstrudo, etc.). I.Lit.: est quiddam, quod occultatur, quod quo studiosius ab istis opprimitur et absconditur, eo magis eminet et apparet, Cic. Rosc. Am. 41 fin.: nequiquam (eam) abdidi, abscondidi, abstrusam habebam, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 25: aurum secundum aram, Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 890 P.: fontes absconditi, Auct. ad Her. 4, 6, 9: ensem in vulnere,
to bury
, Sen. Thyest. 721 (cf.: lateri abdidit ensem, Verg. A. 2, 553; v. abdo, II. e); so, abscondit in aëre telum, i. e.
shot it out of sight
, Sil. 1, 316.—Pass., of stars, to set, and thus become invisible, Verg. G. 1, 221.—Hence, B. In gen., to make invisible, to cover: fluvium et campos caede, Sil. 11, 522; so id. 17, 49.—C.Poet., to put a place out of sight, to lose sight of, to depart from: aërias Phaeacum abscondimus arces,