conticiscerer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conticisco, conticiscere, conticui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
cease to talk, fall silent, lapse into silence; cease to function, become idle;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...particulatim hominis? Pone ista quae nos obstupefaciunt; iube conticiscere gemitus et exclamationes et vocum inter lacerationem elisarum acerbitatem..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...inhumanum responsum exorta erat; quos Philippus conticiscere iussit et Thersitam illum saluum incolumemque dimittere. 'At uos' inquit 'ceteri..."