Conticesco, conticescis, conticéscere. Idem. Plin. Tum repentè omnes conticescunt. They all holde their peace sodeinly.Conticescebat paulatim tumultus.Liu.The sturre and tumult was appeased by little and little.Æras nulla de tuis laudibus conticescet.Cic.Thou shalt be praysed for euer. Ad casus aliquos conticescere. Quint. Conticescunt artes.Cicer.Liberall artes be cleane decayed or out of vse.Conticínium.Plaut.Bedde time, or the first parte of the night when men prepare to take rest, and all thinges be in silence. After Erasmns it seemeth to be the time betweene the first cockecrowing after miduight, and the breake of the daye.Vide Prouerbium. Priusquam gallus iterum cecinerit.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
contĭcesco (contĭcisco, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 5, 28; id. Mil. 2, 4, 56; Arn. 5 init.), tĭcŭi, 3, v. inch., to become still, to cease speaking or sounding (class. in prose and poetry). I.Lit.: sed conticiscam: nam audio aperiri foris, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 5, 28; id. Mil. 2, 4, 56: ad quod ille quidem conticescit, sed sermonem suscipit Polus, Quint. 2, 15, 28: ad hos casus, i. e.
in such cases
, id. 6, 1, 42: conscientiā convictus repente conticuit, Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 10: consedit ille; conticui, id. Har. Resp. 4, 7: conticuere omnes, Verg. A. 2, 1; Ov. M. 6, 293; 10, 430.—B.To keep silence, not to speak (very rare): paulisper alter, alterius conspectu, conticuere, Liv. 30, 30, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.—Poet. with acc.: tantum nefas conticuit, Val. Fl. 3, 302.—II.Transf., of things: numquam de vobis (hominum) gratissimus sermo conticescet, Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 33: nec ulla umquam aetas de tuis laudibus conticescet, id. Marc. 3, 9: conticuit lyra, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 43: tubae, Mart. 7, 80: conticuere undae, Ov. M. 5, 574.—III.Trop., to become still or quiet, come to rest, cease, decline, stop, abate (syn. obmutesco): cum obmutuisset senatus, judicia conticuissent, etc., Cic. Pis. 12, 26: ut tum conticisceret illa lamentatio et gemitus urbis, id. Red. Sen. 7, 17: artes nostrae, id. Mur. 10, 22; cf.: studium, id. Brut. 94, 324: litterae forenses et senatoriae, id. Off. 2, 1, 3: actiones tribuniciae, Liv. 4, 1, 5: tumultus, id. 2, 55, 10; 22, 55, 8: furor, id. 2, 29, 11.