STILL Copy link • STILL 1. v. To suppress, reprimere: sedare. To pacify, tranquillum aliquem or alicujus animum reddere or facere. To distill, (liquores) destillare. 2. s. *alembicum (technical term). 3. adj. Motionless, immotus: stabilis: fixus. To stand still, consistere [Vid: STAND]. Tranquil, quiet, tranquillus: quietus: placidus: sedatus [SYN. and PHR. in CALM]. Silent, silens: Tac. To be still, silere (not to make a noise); tacere (not to speak); silentium tenere; quiescere. 4. adv. Always, Vid: Nevertheless, Vid: Followed by a comparative, etiam (in the Golden Age; e.g., tantum et plus etiam mihi debet, Cic., still more): adhuc (in later writers; e.g., adhuc difficilior obscuratio est, Quint., still more difficult; ☞ to be avoided): also, jam (= ἤδη, when there is a progression implied; e.g., non ad maritimos modo populos, sed in mediterraneis quoque, et montanis et ferociores jam populos, Cic., Pr. Intr., ii., 865). Still more, magis etiam; multo etiam magis: ☞ The “still” is sometimes omitted (with diminished emphasis); e.g., indignum est a pare vinci, indignius ab inferiore; and “still more” is often plus, amplius, only; e.g., plus pecuniae poscit. Of time, (= yet, up to this or that time) adhuc (up to this time): (usque) ad id tempus: ad id: ad id locorum (up to a past time spoken of: on ad id loc, Vid: Cortte and Fabri on Sall., Jug., 63, 6: Gronov., Liv., 27, 7, 17): etiam (where “still” is emphatic, implying that it is surprising the thing, state, etc., should even now exist, inasmuch as it might have been expected to have ceased before this; are you still muttering? muttis etiam? do you still refuse to speak? taces etiam? when he was still asleep, cum iste etiam cubaret): etiamnunc (a strengthened etiam; it may be used of the past, especially in oblique narrative of what was the speaker’s present; e.g., dixisti paullulum tibi esse etiamnunc morae, etc., Cic., and in letters; Brutus erat in Neside etiamnunc, “is still,” etc., it being the writer’s present. Also with verb in imperfect subjunctive with cum, the principal verb being in the perfect; Vid: Pract. Intr., ii., 331 334): How long still? quamdiu etiam, etc.? still at this day, hodie; hodie etiam; adhuc: do you still not know me (= my character)? non satis me pernosti etiam qualis sim? and still more, or still further (in continuing arguments, etc.), quid vero; verum etiam; et, quod plus est; et, quod magis est: nay, what is still more, immo; immo enim vero: and still more if, etc., praesertim si.