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Cum tacent, clamant Cicero — By remaining silent, they cry out.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t: 2007
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Cùm autem peruentum fuerit ad horam histrionum, time Philosophi dicunt, facite festum domino, et omnes pulsant instrumenta sua, et faciunt maximum sonitum; et statim alius clamat; Taceant omnes, et omnes tacent: Tunc accedunt histrionatrices ante dominum dulcitèr modulantes, quod mihi plus placuit.
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Cum, with the Indicative, is sometimes used to indicate the identity of one act with another; as, -- cum tacent clāmant, _their silence is a shout_ (lit. _when they are silent, they shout_).
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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§ 290. cum tacent, _Cat. _ i, 21. cum te, _Att. _ xiv, 17 A, 4.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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“salvete” inquam. “quo imus una” inquam “ad prandium?” atque illi tacent.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Qaod ad dupticis ge - neris decimas attinet, de his fcviptores antiquiratum lacra - i-umj qusB vulgo dicuntur, exponunt, {ed de prrmogetti - tis, quos ego quidem inlpexi, tacent, Clerkus. ad h.
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791
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