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|lshtext=<b>sĭlĕo</b>: ŭi (<br /><b>I</b> perf. [[pass]]. silitum est, Aug. Civ. Dei, 16, 2), 2, v. n. and a. [cf. Goth. silan, ana-silan, to be [[silent]]; Germ. seltsam, selten], to be [[noiseless]], [[still]], or [[silent]], to [[keep]] [[silence]]; [[act]]., not to [[speak]] of, to [[keep]] [[silent]] [[respecting]] a [[thing]] ([[class]].; stronger [[than]] tacere).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: silete et tacete [[atque]] animum advortite, Plaut. Poen. prol. 3; id. Capt. 3, 1, 20: optimum quemque silere, Liv. 39, 27 fin.: muta silet [[virgo]], Ov. M. 10, 389: [[lingua]], sile, id. P. 2, 2, 61: sedentibus ac silentibus cunctis, Suet. Claud. 21: obstrepentes [[forte]] ranas silere jussit, id. Aug. 94.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With de: cum ceteri de nobis [[silent]], Cic. Sull. 29, 80: de dracone silet, id. Div. 2, 30, 65: de re publicā ut sileremus, id. Brut. 42, 157; cf. id. ib. 76, 266; cf. Fabri ad Sall. J. 19, 2.—Impers. [[pass]].: de jurgio siletur, Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 13; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 10, 32; Sall. C. 2, 8: [[usque]] ab [[Abraham]] de justorum aliquorum commemoratione silitum est, Aug. Civ. Dei, 16, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: quae hoc tempore sileret omnia, Cic. Clu. 6, 18: tu hoc silebis, id. Att. 2, 18, 3: [[neque]] te silebo, [[Liber]], Hor. C. 1, 12, 21; cf. id. ib. 4, 9, 31: fortia facta, Ov. M. 12, 575: [[alium]] silere [[quod]] voles, Sen. Hippol. 876: nulla me [[tellus]] silet, id. Herc. Oet. 39; cf.: facti [[culpa]] silenda mihi, Ov. Tr. 2, 208.—Pass.: ea res siletur, Cic. Fl. 3, 6: [[quod]] ego [[praetermitto]] et [[facile]] [[patior]] sileri, id. Cat. 1, 6, 14: ne [[nunc]] [[quidem]] [[post]] tot saecula sileantur, Liv. 27, 10, 7: per quem tria verba silentur, Ov. F. 1, 47: [[mala]] [[causa]] silenda est, id. P. 3, 1, 147: [[quisquis]] [[ille]], sileatur, Plin. Ep. 8, 22, 4; cf. Tac. Agr. 41.—Part. [[pass]]. as subst.: sĭlenda, ōrum, mysteries, secrets, Liv. 39, 10, 5; cf. Curt. 6, 25, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With rel.[[clause]]: quā tulerit mercede, silet, Ov. M. 7, 688.—* (ε) With obj.-[[clause]]: ut sileat [[verbum]] facere, Auct. B. Hisp. 3, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of things ([[mostly]] [[poet]].): intempesta silet nox, Verg. G. 1, 247: silet [[aequor]], id. E. 9, 57: [[mare]], Val. Fl. 7, 542: immotae frondes, Ov. M. 7, 187: [[umidus]] aër, id. ib.: [[aura]], Col. 2, 21, 5: venti, id. 12, 25, 4: [[tranquillo]] silet immotāque attollitur undā Campus, Verg. A. 5, 127; cf.: [[silent]] [[late]] loca, id. ib. 9, 190: [[tempus]] erat quo cuncta [[silent]], Ov. M. 10, 446; cf. also [[infra]] P. a.—Act.: si chartae sileant [[quod]] [[bene]] feceris, Hor. C. 4, 8, 21.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., to be [[still]] or [[quiet]] (opp. to [[being]] in [[action]]), to [[remain]] [[inactive]], to [[rest]], [[cease]] (in [[class]]. [[prose]], for the [[most]] [[part]] [[only]] of things; cf. [[quiesco]]): et cycnea [[mele]] Phoebeaque Carmina consimili ratione oppressa silerent, Lucr. 2, 506: [[silent]] [[diutius]] Musae Varronis [[quam]] solebant, Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 2: [[silent]] leges [[inter]] [[arma]], id. Mil. 4, 10: si [[quando]] [[ambitus]] sileat, id. Leg. 3, 17, 39: ne sileret [[sine]] [[fabulis]] [[hilaritas]], Petr. 110, 6.—Of persons: fixaque silet [[Gradivus]] in hastā, Val. Fl. 4, 281: nec ceterae nationes silebant ([[with]] [[arma]] movere), Tac. H. 3, 47.—Hence, sĭlens, entis (abl. silente; [[but]] -ti, Liv. 23, 35, 18 al.; Ov. M. 4, 84; neutr. plur. silenta loca, Laev. ap. Gell. 19, 7, 7; gen. plur. ([[poet]].) silentum, Verg. A. 6, 432; Ov. M. 5, 356 al.), P. a., [[still]], [[calm]], [[quiet]], [[silent]]: nocte silenti, Ov. M. 4, 84; Verg. A. 4, 527: silenti nocte, Liv. 26, 5, 9; Petr. poët. 89, 2, 32: silente nocte, Tib. 1, 5, 16: silente [[caelo]], Plin. 18, 28, 69, § 279: silenti agmine ducam vos, Liv. 25, 38; so, silenti agmine, id. 31, 38 fin.; 35, 4: per lucos silentes, Verg. G. 1, 476: vultu defixus [[uterque]] silenti, Val. Fl. 7, 407: umbrae silentes, i. e. the [[dead]], Verg. A. 6, 264; called [[populus]] [[silens]], Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 237; [[more]] freq. as subst.: sĭlentes, um, comm., the [[dead]]: umbrae silentum, Ov. M. 15, 797; so, rex silentum, id. ib. 5, 356: [[sedes]], id. ib. 15, 772; Val. Fl. 1, 750; cf.: [[Aeacus]] jura silentibus [[illic]] Reddit, Ov. M. 13, 25.—The Pythagoreans were also called Silentes for the [[five]] years [[during]] [[which]] [[they]] were to [[listen]] to the instructions of [[Pythagoras]]: [[coetus]] silentum, Ov. M. 15, 66; [[hence]], silentes anni, these [[five]] years of the Pythagoreans, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 157: [[luna]] silenti, not [[shining]], i. e. at the [[end]] of the [[month]], [[Cato]], R. R. 29; 40; 50; Col. 2, 10, 11; cf. Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 190: [[sarmentum]], not [[yet]] [[shooting]] [[forth]], Col. 4, 29, 1: vineae, id. 4, 27, 1: surculi, id. 11, 2, 26: [[flos]], id. 12, 7, 1: ova, in [[which]] the chicks do not [[yet]] [[move]], id. 8, 5, 15.—With ab: [[dies]] [[silens]] a ventis, Col. 4, 29, 5.—Hence, adv.: sĭlenter, [[silently]], Juvenc. 3, 462; Vulg. 1, Reg. 24, 5.

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|georg=sileo, uī, ēre (zu Wz. sē (i), [[nachlassen]], gotisch [[ana]]-silan, [[nachlassen]], [[still]] [[werden]]), [[lautlos]]-, [[still]] [[sein]], [[schweigen]], [[mit]] folg. [[Objekt]] = in bezug [[auf]] etw., [[von]] etw. [[schweigen]], etw. [[verschweigen]], I) eig.: 1) v. Pers.: a) [[ganz]] absol. od. m. de u. Abl.: silete et tacete, Plaut.: [[silens]] ac [[prope]] mutum [[agmen]] incessisse, Liv.: sedentibus ac silentibus cunctis, Suet.: optimum quemque silere, Liv. – ceteri de [[nobis]] silent, Cic.: sileremus de re [[publica]], Cic. – impers., de [[iurgio]] siletur, Ter.: silebitur toto iudicio de maximis illius furtis, Cic. ([[aber]] Augustin. de civ. dei 16, 2, 3. p. 124, 24 D.² [[jetzt]] [[silentium]] est, s. [[silentiumno]]. I, A). – Partiz. silēns, [[schweigend]], schweigsam, [[still]], umbrae silentes (der Verstorbenen), Verg.: u. so animae silentes, Prop., u. [[sil]]. [[populus]], Claud. – subst., silentes, die Schweigenden, α) = die Toten in der [[Unterwelt]], [[rex]] silentum (v. [[Pluto]]), Ov. u. Claud.: [[sedes]] silentum, Ov.: [[concilium]] silentum, Verg.: pia [[turba]] silentum, Val. Flacc.: umbrae silentum, Ov.: [[coetus]] silentum, Lucan. 6, 513. – β) die Pythagoreer, [[coetus]] silentum, Ov. [[met]]. 15, 66. – b) m. Acc.: tu [[hoc]] silebis, Cic.: ut [[alia]] sileam, Oros.: [[neque]] te silebo, [[Liber]], Hor.: s. fortia facta, Ov. – im [[Passiv]], [[res]] siletur, Cic.: [[vir]] [[neque]] silendus [[neque]] dicendus [[sine]] [[cura]], Vell.: [[quae]] ([[tempora]]) sileri Agricolam [[non]] sinerent, [[von]] A. zu [[schweigen]], Tac.: sileantur fraudenturve laude suā, Liv. – Partiz. subst., silenda, ōrum, n., zu verschweigende Dinge, Geheimnisse, Mysterien, Liv. 39, 10, 5: verb. arcana et silenda, Curt. 6, 7 (25), 3. – c) m. Infin.: ut sileat [[verbum]] facere, Auct. b. Hisp. 3, 7. – 2) [[von]] Lebl.: silet [[aura]], silent venti, Colum.: silet aër, Ov.: silet [[nox]], Verg.: silet [[aequor]], Verg., [[mare]], Val. Flacc.: silent immotae frondes, Ov.: [[materia]] [[silens]], vom [[nicht]] knackenden Holze, Plin. – m. folg. Relativsatz, si chartae sileant [[quod]] [[bene]] feceris, Hor. carm. 4, 8, 21. – Partiz. silēns, [[schweigend]], schweigsam, [[ruhig]], [[still]], silentes venti, Plin.: [[sil]]. [[nox]], Verg.: [[nocte]] silente od. silenti, Tibull., Ov. u. Liv.: [[luna]] [[silens]], Plin.: silente od. silenti lunā (Ggstz. plenā lunā), [[Cato]] u. Plin.: silente [[caelo]], Plin.: silenti agmine, Liv.: [[aerarium]] [[silens]] ([[friedlich]]) et quietum, Plin. pan.: silentes anni, die Jahre [[des]] Stillschweigens [[bei]] den Pythagoreern, Claud.: vineae silentes, [[noch]] [[nicht]] ausschlagende, Colum.: u. so surculi, [[sarmentum]], Colum.: silentia ova, in denen die [[Küchlein]] [[sich]] [[noch]] [[nicht]] [[bewegen]], Colum. – [[mit]] ab u. Abl., [[dies]] [[silens]] a ventis, [[ein]] windstiller, Colum. 4, 29, 5. – m. Acc. neutr. statt [[des]] Adv., [[Bauli]] magnum silentes, in tiefes [[Schweigen]] gehüllte, Symm. epist. 1, 8. – II) übtr., [[still]]-, [[untätig]] [[sein]], [[ruhen]], [[feiern]], [[aufhören]], a) v. Pers.: silent [[diutius]] Musae Varronis [[quam]] solebant, Cic.: [[nec]] ceterae nationes silebant, Tac.: fixa silet [[Gradivus]] in [[hasta]], Val. Flacc. – b) [[von]] Lebl.: silent leges [[inter]] [[arma]], Cic.: si [[quando]] [[ambitus]] sileat, Cic.: silent carmina, Lucr.: ne sileret [[sine]] [[fabulis]] [[hilaritas]], Petron. – / [[Part]]. Praes. im Abl. Sing. gew. silente; [[doch]] [[auch]] silenti, [[wie]] [[Cato]] r. r. 40 (41), 1. Liv. 23, 35, 18 u.a. Ov. [[met]]. 4, 84. – synk. Nom. Plur. silenta ([[loca]]), Laev. fr. 15 M. ([[bei]] Gell. 19, 7, 7): synkop. Genet. Plur. silentum, Verg. Aen. 6, 432 u. catal. 11, 46. Ov. [[met]]. 5, 356 u.a. Prop. 3, 12, 33.

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