statio: institio (general terms, but especially of the apparent standing still of certain stars, stellarum). To be at a stand-still, consistere; vestigio haerere (not to be able to walk on); in dicendo deficere (in a speech); in aliqua re haerescere or inhaerescere; nescio quid agam or quo me vertam (of not knowing what to do); nescio quomodo me expediam: business is at a stand-still, mercatura jacet or friget; negotia jacent: everything is at a stand-still, omnia tamquam in quodam incili adhaeserunt (caelius, ap. Cic., Fam., 8, 5).