Obscuro, obscúras, pen. prod. obscurâre. Cicero. To make darke or dimme: to shadow: to hide: to keepe in silence or from the knowledge of men: to make of no reputation.Nitor solis obscuratur. Catull. Is darkened.Tenebris obscurat omnia nox.Cic.Volucres obscurant æthera pennis.Virg. Obscurare, pro supprimere, tegere, obumbrare. vt, Neque est dissimulandum, quod obscurari non potest. Cicer.We must not dissemble that, which can not be hid or kept vnknowne.Tanta vis est honcsti, vt speciem vtilitatis obscuret.Cicer.The force of honestie is so great, that it hydeth the appearance of profite.Omnia illa quæ bona tu vocas, necesse est obscurari, & non apparere, & in virtutem tanquam in solis radios incurrere. C. It must needes be, that all those things % thou callest good be of no value or estimation, & by the brightnesse of uertue are ouercome as it were with the sunne beames.Obscurat magnitudinem periculi lucrum.Cicer.Gaine maketh the greatnesse of the daunger not to be seene.
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obscūro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to render dark, to darken, obscure (class.; syn.: obumbro, opaco). I.Lit.: obscuratur et offunditur luce solis lumen lucernae, Cic. Fin. 3, 14, 45: nitor solis, Cat. 66, 3: finitimas regiones eruptione Aetnaeorum ignium, id. N. D. 2, 38, 96: caelum nocte atque nubibus obscuratum, Sall. J. 38, 5: volucres Aethera obscurant pennis, Verg. A. 12, 253: nebula caelum obscurabat, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 489, 10: obscuratus sol, obscured, eclipsed, Cic. Rep. 1, 16, 25; 2, 10, 17; Tac. A. 14, 12; Vulg. Matt. 24, 29; id. Apoc. 9, 2; Val. Max. 8, 11, ext. 1: visus obscuratus,
dimmed eyesight
, Plin. 8, 27, 41, 99.—B.Transf., to hide, conceal, cover; to render invisible or imperceptible: neque nox tenebris obscurare coetus nefarios potest, Cic. Cat. 1, 3, 6: caput obscurante lacernā, Hor. S. 2, 7, 55: caput dextra, Petr. 134: dolo ipsi et signa militaria obscurati,
concealed, kept out of sight
, Sall. J. 49, 5: nummus in Croesi divitiis obscuratur,
disappears, is lost
, Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 3: tenebrae non obscurabuntur a te, Vulg. Psa. 138, 12.—II.Trop.A.To blind, darken, becloud the understanding: scio amorem tibi Pectus obscurasse, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 41.—B. Of speech, to obscure, render indistinct; to deliver or express indistinctly: si erunt mihi plura ad te scribenda, a)llhgori/ais obscurabo, Cic. Att. 2, 20, 3: nihil dicendo, id. Clu. 1, 1: aliquid callide, Quint. 5, 13, 41; cf. id. 8, 2, 18: stilum affectatione,
to render obscure
, Suet. Tib. 70.—C. Of sound, to pronounce indistinctly: (M) neque eximitur sed obscuratur,
is pronounced indistinctly
, Quint. 9, 4, 40: vocem, to render dull or indistinct, id. 11, 3, 20.—D.To obscure, cover with obscurity; to render unknown: paupertas quorum obscurat nomina, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Trag. v. 73 Vahl.): fortuna res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero celebrat obscuratque, Sall. C. 8, 1.—E. (Acc. to I. B.) To suppress, hide, conceal: quod obscurari non potest, Cic. Arch. 11, 26: laudes, id. Marcell. 9, 31: veritatem, Quint. 4, 2, 64.—Hence, to obscure, cause to be forgotten, render of no account: magnitudo lucri obscurabat periculi magnitudinem, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, 131.—In pass.: obscurari, to become obscure or of no account, to grow obsolete, etc.: sin dicit obscurari quaedam nec apparere, quia valde parva sint, nos quoque concedimus, id. Fin. 4, 12, 29: omnis eorum memoria sensim obscurata est et evanuit, id. de Or. 2, 23, 95; cf. id. Fragm. ap. Mart. Cap. 5, 509: obscurata vocabula,