atratus

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νέῳ δὲ σιγᾶν μᾶλλον ἢ λαλεῖν πρέπει → it's fitting for a young man to keep silence rather than to speak (Menander)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ātrātus: a, um, P. a., as if from atro, āre ater,
I clothed in black for mourning, dressed in mourning: cedo, quis umquam cenārit atratus? * Cic. Vatin. 12 fin.: plebes, Tac. A. 3, 2: senex, Suet. Galb. 18.— Also of suppliants: an atratus prodiret in publicum proque rostris precaretur, Suet. Ner. 47.—Poet. of the horses in the chariot of the sun darkened in an eclipse: Solis et atratis luxerit orbis equis, Prop. 4, 4, 34 (cf. id. 3, 7, 32: Et citius nigros sol agitabit equos).