stock-still

stock-still: immōtus, immōbĭlis: v. IMMOVABLE. When the cause is emotion of some kind, to stand s. may be expr. by stŭpēre: cf. Virg. Aen. 1, 495, stupet obtutuque haeret defixus in uno. More exactly, *tanquam stipes vel truncus in iisdem vestigiis haerere (cf. Caes. B. G. 4, 2, Germani equos eodem remanere vestigio assuefaciunt, to stand perfectly still).