silebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sileo, silere, silui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
be silent, not to speak (about); be quiet; not to function;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...servirent. Ne Suetonius quidem in tanto discrimine silebat. quam[quam] confideret virtuti, tamen exhortationes et preces miscebat..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...aetatem liberum, nubilem filiam obtenderet, intellegereturque etiam quod silebat, avunculum esse Seiani Blaesum atque eo praevalidum. respondit Blaesus..."