ἡ γὰρ σιωπὴ τοῖς σοφοῖσιν ἀπόκρισις → silence, you see, is an answer for the wise (Menander)
per-maestus: (-moestus), a, um, adj.,I greatly afflicted or dejected (postclass.): interitu filiae, Dict. Cret. 1, 23.