silent Copy link Outline 1. tăcĭtus (not speaking)2. tăcĭturnus (habitually s.3. sĭlens, ntis (hushed and still) • silent: 1. tăcĭtus (not speaking): Cic.: Hor.: pass. 2. tăcĭturnus (habitually s.: not fond of talking: oft. of things, quiet, noiseless): s. firmness, t. obstinatio, Nep. Att. 22: s. (noiseless) stream, t. amnis, Hor.: Prop. 3. sĭlens, ntis (hushed and still): Virg.: Ov.: v. still, adj. To be s.:--(1.) tăceo, 2 (not to speak: both intrans., and with acc. of neut. pron.: not to speak about anything): did you think I would be s. about matters so important? an me taciturum tantis de rebus existimavistis? Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 9, 27: what did she say, or what did she keep s.? quid dixit aut quid tacuit? Hor. Epod. 5, 49. And poet. with any other word as direct object: Ov. M. 13, 177 (ut alios taceam). Incept. contĭcesco, tĭcui, 3 (to become s.: esp. but not solely, of a number of persons together becoming s., as in Virg. Aen. 2, 1): Cic. (Reticeo, 2, is usu. to keep something secret, withhold information: v. to keep back: less freq. to be s. again, as in the case of a speaker pausing from time to time: Cic. de Or. 2, 57, 232.) (2.) sĭleo, ui, 2 (to be hushed and still): v. still, to be. Also = not to speak (of): to be s. about a thing, de aliqua re s., Cic. Div. 2, 30, fin.: and with direct acc.: Hor. Od. 1, 12, 21 (neque te silebo: but prose would require de te: a neut. pron. may however be used, as in the case of taceo: v. L. G. § 253).