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|lshtext=<b>musso</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a. (depon. collat. form: discumbimus mussati, Varr. ap. Non. 249, 10) [[root]] mu-, [[shut]]; Sanscr. mūkas, [[dumb]]; Gr. [[μυάω]], μυώψ; cf. [[μυστήριον]]>; Lat. [[mutus]], to [[say]] in a [[low]] [[tone]], to [[mutter]], [[murmur]]; to be [[silent]] [[respecting]] a [[thing]] (not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: [[mutio]], [[murmuro]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: mussare murmurare. [[Ennius]]: in [[occulto]] mussabant. Vulgo [[vero]] pro tacere dicitur, ut [[idem]] [[Ennius]]: non [[decet]] mussare bonos, Paul. ex Fest. p. 144 Müll. (cf. Ann. v. 185; 348; 426; Trag. v. 432 Vahl.): soli Aetoli id [[decretum]] [[clam]] mussantes carpebant, Liv. 33, 31: flent maesti mussantque patres, Verg. A. 11, 454; Anthol. Lat. 1, 170, 108: aequum non est occultum id haberi, [[neque]] per metum mussari, to [[bear]] or [[brook]] in [[silence]], Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 12: [[egomet]] [[mecum]] [[mussito]]: [[Bona]] mea inhiant, id. Mil. 3, 1, 118: [[quidquid]] est, mussitabo [[potius]] [[quam]] inteream, [[keep]] it to [[myself]], id. ib. 2, 3, 40: [[ergo]] si sapis, mussitabis, id. ib. 2, 5, 67.—Poet., of bees, to [[murmur]], [[hum]], Verg. G. 4, 188.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., to be [[afraid]] to [[say]] or do [[any]] [[thing]], to be in [[fear]] or [[uncertainty]]: mussat rex [[ipse]] [[Latinus]], Quos generos vocet, i. e. deliberates in [[silence]], Verg. A. 12, 657: dicere mussant, id. ib. 11, 345: medici, Plin. Ep. 7, 1: juvencae, are [[silent]], [[expect]] in [[silence]], Verg. A. 12, 718.