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... silentium, sed verba sua praepediens et pavoris manifestus, ceterisque...

praepediens, 'halting in his utterance.' Elsewhere ' prae- peaire' is used of what hinders utterance, as 'singultu medios praepediente sonos,' Ovid, Tr. i 3, 42. Furneaux commentary