retice
Dictionary entries
- Entry →reticeo, reticere, reticui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
keep silent; give no reply; refrain from speaking/mentioning; leave unsaid;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...istuc, quidquid est, fac me ut sciam: ne retice, ne verere, crede inquam mihi: aut consolando aut consilio..." Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...noctem Naeuia sobriasque mauis certae nequitias fututionis? Suspiras, retices, gemis: negauit. Crebros ergo licet bibas trientes et durum..."- P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...terras? tu non inventa reperta luctus eras levior! retices nec mutua nostris dicta refers, alto tantum suspiria ducis..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...terras? tu non inventa reperta luctus eras levior! retices nec mutua nostris dicta refers, alto tantum suspiria ducis..." - G
Invectiva in Ciceronem
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...Tusculanum et Pompeianum infinito sumptu aedificaveris, aut si retices, cui dubium potest esse: opulentiam istam ex sanguine..."