resting Smith-Hall resting: quiētus: the night had found them r., quietos nox habuerat, Tac. A. 1, 49: Cic.: v. QUIET, TRANQUIL. Phr.: r. in sleep, somno positus, Virg. Aen. 4, 527: r. (on a couch, etc.), reclinis: v. RECLINING.