To lie bidde: to be secret: to be vnknowne. Latuit ad haue ætatem. Cic. Latere abditè. Cic. Clam latêre. Ouid. Abditus latet agro. Horat. Furtim latêre. Ouid. Latet mihi causa, Lucan. I know not the cause. Nec latuere doli fratrem Iunonis, & Iræ. Virg. Iunoes brother knew full well, or was not ignorant of her crafty fetch and stomacke against them. Later plerosque superiorum trium siderum ignes esse. Plin. Most part know not, or be ignorant, that, &c. Æquor later sub classibus. Virgil. The sea is couered with shippes. Amor latet. Ouid. Loue is his. Error latet. Virg. Ars latet. Ouid. Nocte latent fures. Catul. Res latuit patrem. Ouid. Her father knew not the matter. Virtus latet obruta paupertate. Claud. Vertue through pouertie is hid and vnknowne. Latet apud Parthos. Mart. Insidiæ latent in simulatione ossicij Cicer. Vnder colour of friendly pleasure, lieth hid treasou and meanes to deceine. Latere in occulto. Cic. To lie hid in a sesret place. Sub vmbra Romanæ amicitiæ latebant. Liu. Later inter dentes. Plaut. Latere tecto. Terent. To lie hid in an house.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: ubi sunt, ubi latent, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 69: cochleae in occulto latent, id. Capt. 1, 1, 12; cf. Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21: occulte, id. Agr. 2, 16, 41: clam, Ov. R. Am. 437: abdite, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 73, 181: in tenebris, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2, 9: sub nomine pacis bellum latet, id. Phil. 12, 7, 17: scelus latet inter tot flagitia, id. Rosc. Am. 40, 118: non latuit scintilla ingenii, id. Rep. 2, 21, 37; 40, 67: naves latent portu, Hor. Epod. 9, 19; cf.: tuta arce, Verg. A. 10, 805.—Prov.: latet anguis in herba, Verg. E. 3, 93.—

B. In partic.

1. To be hidden, to be in safety: sub umbra amicitiae Romae, Liv. 34, 9, 10; Phaedr. 4, 5, 13: sub illius umbra Philotas latebam, lurked, Curt. 6, 10, 22.—

2. Jurid., to lie hid, keep out of sight, in order not to appear before court, Cic. Quint. 23, 74.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to live in concealment, to live retired (rare): crede mihi, bene qui latuit, bene vixit, to lead a retired or quiet life, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 25.—

B. In partic., analog. to the Gr. lanqa/nein, res latet, to be concealed from, be unknown to one.

(a). with acc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; cf.: fugit me, praeterit me, etc.): latet plerosque, siderum ignes esse, etc., Plin. 2, 20, 18, 82: nec latuere doli fratrem Junonis, Verg. A. 1, 130: nil illum latet, Ov. P. 4, 9, 126: res Eumenem non latuit, Just. 13, 8, 6; 31, 2, 2: semen duplex, unum, quod latet nostrum sensum, alterum, quod apertum, Varr. R. R. 1, 40.—

(b). With dat.: quae et oculis et auribus latere soleant, Varr. L. L. 9, 92 Müll.: ubi nobis haec auctoritas tamdiu tanta latuit? Cic. Red. in Sen. 6, 13: hostique propinquo Roma latet, Sil. 12, 614.—

(g). Absol., to be concealed or obscure, to be unknown: earum causarum aliae sunt perspicuae, aliae latent, Cic. Top. 17, 63: cum laterent hae partes (sc. Galliae), Amm. 15, 11, 1: quae tantum accenderit ignem, Causa latet, Verg. A. 5, 5: id qua ratione consecutus sit, latet, Nep. Lys. 1.—Hence, lătens, entis, P. a., lying hid, hidden, concealed, secret, unknown: saxa latentia, Verg. A. 1, 108: junctura, Plin. 13, 15, 29, 93: rem latentem explicare definiendo, Cic. Brut. 41, 152: animus in aegro corpore, Juv. 9, 18: causas tentare latentes, Verg. A. 3, 32: Tarquinius mandata latentia nati accipit, Ov. F. 2, 705. —Comp.: latentior origo, Aug. de Gen. ad Litt. 12, 18: caussa, id. Civ. Dei, 5, 19.—Absol.: in latenti, in secret, secretly, Dig. 1, 2, 2.—Hence, adv.: lătenter, in secret, secretly, privately: efficere, Cic. Top. 17, 63: amare, Ov. P. 3, 6, 59: intellegere ex aliqua re, Gell. 2, 18 fin.