intersisto

inter-sisto, stĭti, 3, v. n., to stand still in the middle; trop., to stop in the midst, to make a pause in speaking (perhaps only in Quint.);

of a speaker: indecentissime,

Quint. 8, 3, 45:

ut intersistat fatigatus,

id. 12, 11, 2; 10, 7, 10;

of discourse: oratio,

id. 9, 4, 33.— Pass. impers.:

quasi intersistatur,

Quint. 9, 4, 36; so,

ubi clausulis non intersistitur,

id. 9, 4, 106. [p. 986]