obticentia
From LSJ
οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
obtĭcentĭa: ae, f. obticeo,
I a pause, sudden break in the midst of a discourse, as a rhet. figure: Ἀποσιώπησις, quam Cicero reticentiam, Celsus obticentiam, nonnulli interruptionem appellant, Quint. 9, 2, 54.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
obtĭcentĭa, æ, f. (obticeo), réticence [fig. de rhétorique] : Cels. d. Quint. 9, 2, 54.
