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ăpŏsĭōpēsis , is, f., = ἀποσιώπησις,
I.a breaking off in the midst of a speech, a rhet. fig. (in pure Lat., reticentia, q. v.), Quint. 9, 2, 54 (e. g. Verg. E. 3, 9; id. A. 1, 135; Ov. H. 13, 164; 20, 51 al.).
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    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.135
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 2.54
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