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reticentia

reticentia · f

a keeping silent

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Where it lives

De Officiis 2 · 0.59/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

rĕtĭcentĭa — Lewis & Short

rĕtĭcentĭa, ae, f.reticeo,

I a keeping silent, silence (rare but good prose): quid taces? enicas me miserum tuā reticentiā, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 52; Pac. ap. Non. 1, 31 (Trag. Rel. p. 94 Rib.): posterorum, Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 33: a jurisconsultis etiam reticentiae poena est constituta (viz. as to a defect in a thing sold), id. Off. 3, 16, 65.—

II In rhetor.,= aposiopesis, a pause in the midst of a speech, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205; Quint. 9, 1, 31; 9, 2, 54; 57.

In the wild

reticentiae Cicero, De Officiis 3.65
reticentiae Cicero, De Officiis 3.67.p1
reticentiam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.54

Where it came from

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