Crossword-Solution: TACITA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Fill to me again, thou of the Roman visage and all but Roman speech! Is not yonder the long gleaming of the Appian Way? Chant in the old measure, the song imperishable "dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex--" aye, and for how many an age when Pontiff and Vestal sleep in the eternal silence.

Another nymph, whom Numa commended to the special veneration of the Romans, was named Tacita, or the silent.

Insanire iuvat: cur Berecyntiae Cessant flamina tibiae? Cur pendet tacita fistula cum lyra? 20 Parcentis ego dexteras Odi: sparge rosas; audiat invidus Dementem strepitum Lycus Et vicina seni non habilis Lyco.

The intensity with 167 which he realised what we must lose in dying and what we leave behind of grief to those who loved us, reaches a climax of restrained passion in this well-known paragraph:— 'iam iam non domus accipiet te læta, neque uxor optima nec dulces occurrent oscula nati præripere et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent.

Quid tum, si carpunt, tacita quem mente requirunt? Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o Hymenaee! Vt flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis, Ignotus pecori, nullo convolsus aratro, 40 Quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber * * * * Multi illum pueri, multae optavere puellae: Idem cum tenui carptus defloruit ungui, Nulli illum pueri, nullae optavere puellae: Sic virgo, dum intacta manet, dum cara suis est; 45 Cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem, Nec pueris iocunda manet, nec cara puellis.