secret (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. res arcāna, and in pl., arcāna, orum (of mysterious or confidential secrets2. res occulta; n. pl. occulta (applicable to anything hidden or not generally known)3. commissum (rare in sing. • secret (subs.): 1. res arcāna, and in pl., arcāna, orum (of mysterious or confidential secrets: v. secret, adj. II. 3): s.s of the fates, fatorum arcana, Ov. M. 2, 639: Hor. The neut. sing. may also be used (in oblique cases): cf. Hor. Od. 1, 18, extr., arcanique fides prodiga = of what is secret, collect. of secrets. 2. res occulta; n. pl. occulta (applicable to anything hidden or not generally known): Cic. Fin. 2, 26, fin., quicum joca, seria; quicum arcana, occulta omnia [communices]. 3. commissum (rare in sing.: a s. entrusted to any one to keep): to keep s.s, c. celare, Nep. Epam. 3: tacere, Hor. S. 1, 4, 84: tegere, id. Ep. 1, 18, 38: opp. to c. enuntiare (to reveal s.s), Cic. Tusc. 2, 13, 31. Phr.: to keep anything a s., aliquid occultum tenere, etc. (v. preced. art.): it is no s. to me, non me fugit, Cic. Att. 12, 42: also (later), non me latet, Just. 13, 8 (res Eumenem non latuit): I tell you this as a s., hoc tibi soli dictum puta; haec tu tecum habeto; hoc tibi in aurem dixerim; hoc lapidi dixerim (Georg.): tell me--the s. will be safe, [rem] depone tutis auribus, Hor. Od. 1, 27, 18: so, of a person who cannot keep a s., rimosae aures (leaky ears), id. S. 2, 6, 47 (quae rimosa bene deponuntur in aure): cf. Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 25, plenus rimarum sum, hac atque illuc perfluo (I can keep nothing a s.): the matter is no longer a s., res palam est, Pl. Aul. 4, 10, 2 (4, 9, 18): jam res emanavit (v. to get abroad): he makes no s. of it, neque id occulte fert, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 30: in the s. (party to it), conscius: cf. Sall. Cat. 22, alius alii taciti facinoris conscii (being all alike in the guilty s.): many being in the s., multis consciis, Nep. Dion 8 (v. party to).