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= Ovid is fond of this metaphorical sense of _uulnus_; see _Met_ V 425-27 'Cyane ... inconsolabile _uulnus_/_mente_ gerit tacita', _Tr_ IV iv 41-42 'neue retractando nondum coeuntia rumpam/
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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'Ense velut stricto quotiens Lucilius ardens infremuit, rubet auditor cui frigida mens est criminibus, tacita sudant praecordia culpa.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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= For the phrase, compare _Am_ I iv 23-24 (Ovid is listing the signals his girl should use at the dinner-table) 'si quid erit de me tacita _quod_ mente _queraris_,/pendeat extrema mollis ab aure manus', _Tr_ V i 37 (of Fortune) '_quod querar_, illa mihi pleno de fonte ministrat', _Her_ XIX 79, and _Her_ XX 34 & 94.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Y si tacita o expresamente me fuere denegado otra vez, apelo para ante quien y con derecho debo, y pido los apostolos desta mi apelacion con las instancias e ahincamientos necesarios, y pidolo por testimonio. '
Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921
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You will filch things from your lady at home on the sly, eh? suspendam potius me, quam tu haec tacita auferas. iam quidem hercle ad illam hinc ibo, quam tu propediem, nisi quidem illa ante occupassit te, effliges scio, luxuriae sumptus suppeditare ut possies.
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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IVVENES at libet innuptis ficto te carpere questu. quid tum, si carpunt, tacita quem mente requirunt?
Hymen, O Hymenaee 1912
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Et amita Veneria properiter obiit, cui breuia melea modifica recino: cinis ita placidulus adoperiat eam locaque tacita celeripes Erebi adeat.
The Graves of a Household Ausonius 1912
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* Ne tacita cogitatione haereses illae et sectae nobis tribuantur, propterea, quod earum in commemorata declaratione expressam mentionem non fecimus: visum est, articulos earum ad calcem:
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[19] Ense velut stricto quoties Lucilius ardens Infremuit, rubet auditor cui frigida mens est Criminibus, tacita sudant praecordia culpa.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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[76] _Vis animae divina regit, sacroque meatu Conspirat deus et tacita ratione gubernat_ (I. 250).
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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