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What was the verb(s) the Romans used when the hide/encrypt a message in another text (and also the antonym "to decipher"). After consulting Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes (Celare), it was difficult to fixate on a word.

Latin Vicipaedia (Cryptographia) seems to suggest obscuro ("Cryptographi plerumque mathematicis rationibus ad nuntia obscuranda utuntur") or simply scribo [secretum nuntium] ("Cryptographia est ars scientiaque nuntiorum secretorum scribendorum et interpretandorum")

There surely are classical as well as medieval examples but I could not find any.

What was the verb(s) the Romans used when the hide/encrypt a message in another text (and also the antonym "to decipher")? After consulting Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes (Celare), it was difficult to fixate on a word.

Latin Vicipaedia (Cryptographia) seems to suggest obscuro ("Cryptographi plerumque mathematicis rationibus ad nuntia obscuranda utuntur") or simply scribo [secretum nuntium] ("Cryptographia est ars scientiaque nuntiorum secretorum scribendorum et interpretandorum")

There surely are classical as well as medieval examples but I could not find any.

What was the verb(s) the Romans used when the hide/encrypt a message in another text (and also the opposite "to decipher"). After consulting Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes (Celare), it was diffuclt to fixate on a word.

Latin Vicipaedia (Cryptographia) seems to suggest obscuro ("Cryptographi plerumque mathematicis rationibus ad nuntia obscuranda utuntur") or simply scribo [secretum nuntium] ("Cryptographia est ars scientiaque nuntiorum secretorum scribendorum et interpretandorum")

There surely are classical as well as medieval examples but I could not find any.

What was the verb(s) the Romans used when the hide/encrypt a message in another text (and also the antonym "to decipher"). After consulting Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes (Celare), it was difficult to fixate on a word.

Latin Vicipaedia (Cryptographia) seems to suggest obscuro ("Cryptographi plerumque mathematicis rationibus ad nuntia obscuranda utuntur") or simply scribo [secretum nuntium] ("Cryptographia est ars scientiaque nuntiorum secretorum scribendorum et interpretandorum")

There surely are classical as well as medieval examples but I could not find any.

What was the verb(s) the Romans used when the hide/encrypt a message in another text (and also the opposite "to decipher").After consulting Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes (Celare), it was diffuclt to fixate on a word.

Latin Vicipedia (Cryptographia) seems to suggest obscuro ("Cryptographi plerumque mathematicis rationibus ad nuntia obscuranda utuntur") or simply scribo [secretum nuntium] ("Cryptographia est ars scientiaque nuntiorum secretorum scribendorum et interpretandorum")

There surely are classical as well as medieval examples but I could not find any.

What was the verb(s) the Romans used when the hide/encrypt a message in another text (and also the opposite "to decipher"). After consulting Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes (Celare), it was diffuclt to fixate on a word.

Latin Vicipaedia (Cryptographia) seems to suggest obscuro ("Cryptographi plerumque mathematicis rationibus ad nuntia obscuranda utuntur") or simply scribo [secretum nuntium] ("Cryptographia est ars scientiaque nuntiorum secretorum scribendorum et interpretandorum")

There surely are classical as well as medieval examples but I could not find any.