stand-still
STAND-STILL
statio: institio (general terms but especially of the apparent standing still of certain stars stellarum). To be at a stand-still consistere; vestigio haerere (not to be able to walk on); in dicendo deficere (in a speech); in aliqua re haerescere or inhaerescere; nescio quid agam or quo me vertam (of not knowing what to do); nescio quomodo me expediam: business is at a stand-still mercatura jacet or friget; negotia jacent: everything is at a stand-still omnia tamquam in quodam incili adhaeserunt (Caelius ap. Cic. Fam. 8 5).
statio: institio (general terms but especially of the apparent standing still of certain stars stellarum). To be at a stand-still consistere; vestigio haerere (not to be able to walk on); in dicendo deficere (in a speech); in aliqua re haerescere or inhaerescere; nescio quid agam or quo me vertam (of not knowing what to do); nescio quomodo me expediam: business is at a stand-still mercatura jacet or friget; negotia jacent: everything is at a stand-still omnia tamquam in quodam incili adhaeserunt (Caelius ap. Cic. Fam. 8 5).
stand-still: Phr.. the profligate was at a s., haerebat nebulo, Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 74 the speech comes to a s., oratio haeret in salebra, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84: the sedition coming to a s., stupente seditione, Liv. 28, 25: the whole conduct of the war was at a s., omnis administratio belli constitit, Caes. B. C. 2, 12: v. STAND (subs.).