going back

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sŭpīnus, a, um, adj. [from sub; cf. huptios, from hupo, hupai], backwards, bent backwards, thrown backwards, lying on the back, supine (opp. pronus, cernuus).

Lit.

In gen. (freq. and class.), of persons:

stertitque supinus,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 19; Suet. Aug. 16; id. Claud. 33: pater excitat supinum juvenem, i. e in bed, Juv. 14, 190.—Of animals, parts of the body, etc.:

animal omne, ut vult, ita utitur motu sui corporis, prono, obliquo, supino,

Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120:

refracta videntur omnia converti sursumque supina reverti,

Lucr. 4, 441:

quid nunc supina sursum in caelum conspicis?

Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 78:

cubitus,

a lying on the back, Plin. 28, 4, 14, § 54:

caput,

thrown back, Quint. 11, 3, 69:

cervix,

id. 11, 3, 82:

vultus,

id. 1, 11, 9:

ora,

Cic. Univ. 14:

venter,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 85:

testudines,

Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 41:

apes,

id. 11, 8, 8, § 19:

pugnans falce supinā,

Juv. 8, 201: tendoque supinas Ad caelum cum voce manus, i. e. with the open palms turned upwards (a gesture of one praying), Verg. A. 3, 176; so,

manus,

Ov. M. 8, 681; Liv. 3, 50; 26, 9; Curt. 6, 6, 34; Suet. Vit. 7; Hor. C. 3, 23, 1; Quint. 11, 3, 99:

cornua aliis adunca, aliis redunca, supina, convexa,

Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 125:

cathedra,

an easy chair with an inclined back, id. 16, 37, 68, § 174: jactus, a [p. 1813] throwing up, Liv. 30, 10, 13: signis supinis, lowered (opp. erectis), Spart. Sev. 7.— Comp.:

in arborum tonsurā supiniore,

Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 214. —

In partic.

Of motion, backwards, going back, retrograde ( poet.):

nec redit in fontes unda supina suos,

Ov. Med. Fac. 40:

cursus fluminum,

id. P. 4, 5, 43:

carmen,

i. e. that can be read backwards in the same metre, Mart. 2, 86, 1.—

Of localities.

Sloping, inclined (not in Cic.;

syn. declivis): tabulae scheda,

Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 77:

scandenti circa ima labor est... si haec jam lenius supina evaseris,

Quint. 12, 10, 79:

per supinam vallem fusi,

Liv. 4, 46, 5; 6, 24, 3; 7, 24, 5:

sin tumulis adclive solum collisque supinos (metabere),

Verg. G. 2, 276:

per supina camporum,

undulating, Amm. 22, 15, 7. —

Stretched out, extended:

Tibur,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 23:

solum,

Plin. Pan. 30, 4:

mare,

Plin. 9, 2, 1, § 2:

vindemia,

id. 17, 22, 35, § 185. —

Trop. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Of the mind.

Careless, thoughtless, heedless, negligent, indolent, supine:

otiosi et supini (oratores),

Quint. 10, 2, 17 Spald.:

supini securique,

id. 11, 3, 3; Dig. 18, 1, 15:

animus,

Cat. 17, 25:

Maecenas,

Juv. 1, 66:

auris,

Mart. 6, 42, 22:

compositio (with tarda),

Quint. 9, 4, 137:

ignorantia,

Dig. 22, 6, 6; Quint. 12, 10, 79. — Comp.:

deliciae supiniores,

Mart. 2, 6, 13. —

With head thrown back, haughty, proud:

haec et talia dum refert supinus,

Mart. 5, 8, 10; Pers. 1, 129.—

In later gram. lang. sŭpīnum (sc. verbum).

The verbal form in um and u, the supine (perh. because, although furnished with substantive case-endings, it rests or falls back on the verb), Charis. p. 153 P.; Prisc. p. 811 ib. (called in Quint. 1, 4, 29, verba participialia).—

The verbal form in andum and endum, the gerund, Charis. p. 153 P.; Prisc. p. 823 ib. — Hence, * adv.: sŭpīnē (acc. to II. A. 1.), carelessly, negligently:

beneficium accipere,

Sen. Ben. 2, 24, 3.

sŭpīnus, a, um, adj. [from sub; cf. huptios, from hupo, hupai], backwards, bent backwards, thrown backwards, lying on the back, supine (opp. pronus, cernuus).

Lit.

In gen. (freq. and class.), of persons:

stertitque supinus,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 19; Suet. Aug. 16; id. Claud. 33: pater excitat supinum juvenem, i. e in bed, Juv. 14, 190.—Of animals, parts of the body, etc.:

animal omne, ut vult, ita utitur motu sui corporis, prono, obliquo, supino,

Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120:

refracta videntur omnia converti sursumque supina reverti,

Lucr. 4, 441:

quid nunc supina sursum in caelum conspicis?

Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 78:

cubitus,

a lying on the back, Plin. 28, 4, 14, § 54:

caput,

thrown back, Quint. 11, 3, 69:

cervix,

id. 11, 3, 82:

vultus,

id. 1, 11, 9:

ora,

Cic. Univ. 14:

venter,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 85:

testudines,

Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 41:

apes,

id. 11, 8, 8, § 19:

pugnans falce supinā,

Juv. 8, 201: tendoque supinas Ad caelum cum voce manus, i. e. with the open palms turned upwards (a gesture of one praying), Verg. A. 3, 176; so,

manus,

Ov. M. 8, 681; Liv. 3, 50; 26, 9; Curt. 6, 6, 34; Suet. Vit. 7; Hor. C. 3, 23, 1; Quint. 11, 3, 99:

cornua aliis adunca, aliis redunca, supina, convexa,

Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 125:

cathedra,

an easy chair with an inclined back, id. 16, 37, 68, § 174: jactus, a [p. 1813] throwing up, Liv. 30, 10, 13: signis supinis, lowered (opp. erectis), Spart. Sev. 7.— Comp.:

in arborum tonsurā supiniore,

Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 214. —

In partic.

Of motion, backwards, going back, retrograde ( poet.):

nec redit in fontes unda supina suos,

Ov. Med. Fac. 40:

cursus fluminum,

id. P. 4, 5, 43:

carmen,

i. e. that can be read backwards in the same metre, Mart. 2, 86, 1.—

Of localities.

Sloping, inclined (not in Cic.;

syn. declivis): tabulae scheda,

Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 77:

scandenti circa ima labor est... si haec jam lenius supina evaseris,

Quint. 12, 10, 79:

per supinam vallem fusi,

Liv. 4, 46, 5; 6, 24, 3; 7, 24, 5:

sin tumulis adclive solum collisque supinos (metabere),

Verg. G. 2, 276:

per supina camporum,

undulating, Amm. 22, 15, 7. —

Stretched out, extended:

Tibur,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 23:

solum,

Plin. Pan. 30, 4:

mare,

Plin. 9, 2, 1, § 2:

vindemia,

id. 17, 22, 35, § 185. —

Trop. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Of the mind.

Careless, thoughtless, heedless, negligent, indolent, supine:

otiosi et supini (oratores),

Quint. 10, 2, 17 Spald.:

supini securique,

id. 11, 3, 3; Dig. 18, 1, 15:

animus,

Cat. 17, 25:

Maecenas,

Juv. 1, 66:

auris,

Mart. 6, 42, 22:

compositio (with tarda),

Quint. 9, 4, 137:

ignorantia,

Dig. 22, 6, 6; Quint. 12, 10, 79. — Comp.:

deliciae supiniores,

Mart. 2, 6, 13. —

With head thrown back, haughty, proud:

haec et talia dum refert supinus,

Mart. 5, 8, 10; Pers. 1, 129.—

In later gram. lang. sŭpīnum (sc. verbum).

The verbal form in um and u, the supine (perh. because, although furnished with substantive case-endings, it rests or falls back on the verb), Charis. p. 153 P.; Prisc. p. 811 ib. (called in Quint. 1, 4, 29, verba participialia).—

The verbal form in andum and endum, the gerund, Charis. p. 153 P.; Prisc. p. 823 ib. — Hence, * adv.: sŭpīnē (acc. to II. A. 1.), carelessly, negligently:

beneficium accipere,

Sen. Ben. 2, 24, 3.

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rĕcī̆prŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [reciprocus].

Act., to move backwards or back and forth (rare but class.; cf.: meo, remeo).

Lit.: rursus prorsus reciprocat fluctus feram, bears to and fro, Enn. ap. Non. 165, 11, and 384 fin. (Trag. v. 143 Vahl.):

refluusque reciprocat aestus,

Sil. 15, 225:

(ventus) cum jam spiritum includeret nec reciprocare animam sineret,

to breathe, fetch their breath, Liv. 21, 58, 4:

spiritum per fistulam,

Gell. 17, 11, 4:

aurae per anhelitum reciprocatae,

Arn. 2, 54:

manu telum reciprocans,

brandishing, Gell. 9, 11, 5:

quid Chalcidico Euripo in motu identidem reciprocando putas fieri posse constantius?

Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24; cf.

under II.: serram,

to draw back and forth, Tert. Cor. Mil. 3: circulos, Prud. steph. 10, 573:

quinqueremem in adversum aestum reciprocari non posse,

would not be able to tack about, Liv. 28, 30; cf.:

quoniam aestus semper e Ponto profluens nunquam reciprocetur,

flow back, Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 93:

reciprocari mare coepit,

Curt. 9, 9, 20.—

Trop., to reverse, convert a proposition:

si quidem ista sic reciprocantur, ut et, si divinatio sit, dii sint, et si dii sint, sit divinatio,

Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10.—

Neutr., to move backwards, go back; to move back and forth, to come and go, reciprocate (perh. only since the Aug. per.):

fretum ipsum Euripi non septies die temporibus statis reciprocat,

rises and falls, Liv. 28, 6;

so of the ebb and flow: Euripus,

Plin. 2, 97, 100, § 219:

mare,

Curt. 9, 9, 20:

aquae,

Flor. 2, 8, 9;

and of the ebb (opp. accedere),

Plin. 2, 97, 89, § 212.—

Of stars: saepe citra eos ad solem reciprocent,

Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 72:

nubem eos arcentem a reciprocando,

from going back, id. 9, 46, 70, § 151.

p. 229 Müll.

rĕceptus, a, um, Part. and P. a., v. recipio.

rĕceptus, ūs, m. [recipio].

A drawing back (very rare).

Lit.:

spiritus... in receptu difficilis,

hard to recover, Quint. 11, 3, 32, § 53. —

Trop., a retraction, recantation:

receptus nimis pertinacis sententiae,

Liv. 4, 57, 4. —

Milit. t. t., a drawing or falling back, a retiring, retreat (very freq. in prose and poetry):

ut expeditum ad suos receptum habeant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 33; so,

habere receptum ad aliquem,

id. ib. 6, 9;

and simply receptus habere,

id. B. C. 1, 59; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 11, 2; Liv. 27, 27; 44, 39 al.:

cum receptus primis non esset,

id. 28, 23; 40, 32:

dare receptum alicui,

Caes. B. C. 1, 46; 1, 82 fin.;

and simply receptus dare,

id. ib. 2, 30 fin.:

Caesar receptui cani jussit,

id. B. G. 7, 47; cf.:

receptui signum audire,

Cic. Phil. 13, 7, 15:

signum dare receptui,

Liv. 4, 31, 3:

Caesar receptui suorum timens,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46; 3, 69:

receptui sibi consulebant,

id. ib. 3, 11, §

4: haud facili inde receptu,

Liv. 29, 7: ne receptum amittam, Pompon. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, C, 2 et saep.: canere receptui a miseriis contemplandis, to give the signal for leaving off, etc., Cic. Tusc. 3, 15, 33. — In plur.:

(bucina) cecinit jussos inflata receptus,

Ov. M. 1, 340:

cane, Musa, receptus,

leave off, id. Tr. 4, 9, 31; and in the signif., place of retreat, refuge:

tuti recessus,

Verg. A. 11, 527:

perdices surculis receptus suos vestiunt,

nests, Sol. 7 fin. (cf. receptaculum, II. fin.).—

Transf., a going back, retreating:

receptus et recursus maris,

i. e. the ebb and flow, Eum. Paneg. Const. 6 fin. —

Trop., a retiring, falling back, retreat:

receptui canente receptu,

Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8; cf. Quint. 12, 11, 4:

receptus ad Caesaris gratiam atque amicitiam,

Caes. B. C. 1, 1:

receptum ad poenitendum habere,

Liv. 42, 13:

ad expertam clementiam,

id. 3, 2:

a malis consiliis receptum,

id. 28, 25; Col. 6. 23, 2.

rĕcursus, ūs, m. [id.].

Lit., a running back, going back, return, retreat, etc. (not ante-Aug.; and in the poets mostly in the plur.; in the sing., Ov. M. 11, 454):

inde alios ineunt cursus aliosque recursus,

Verg. A. 5, 583:

ut recursus pateret,

Liv. 26, 42 fin.; cf.:

dent modo fata recursus,

Ov. H. 6, 59; and id. M. 9, 593:

celeres missae spondere recursus,

id. ib. 6, 450:

celerem recursum precatus est,

Plin. Pan. 86, 4; Flor. 4, 11, 6 et saep.:

per alternos undā labente recursus,

Ov. Ib. 423; cf.:

Lydia perfusa flexuosi amnis Maeandri recursibus,

i. e. windings, Plin. 5, 29, 30, § 110:

poti liquoris,

Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 2, 8.—Concr., a returning path, way back:

(labyrinthus) itinerum ambages occursusque ac recursus inexplicabiles continet,

Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 85.—

Trop.

A returning, return: recursus ad bonam valetudinem, Cels. 4, 4:

ad pristinum militiae ordinem,

Val. Max. 2, 7, 15.—

Of vision, sight, reach, the power to bring back an image:

specula, cum procul abducta sunt, faciem non reddunt, quia acies nostra non habet usque ad nos recursum,

Sen. Q. N. 1, 13, 2.—

In law t. t., recourse:

ad judicem a quo fuerit provocatum,

Cod. Just. 7, 62, 6.

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rĕcessus, a, um, Part. and P. a., v. recedo.

rĕcessus, ūs, m. [recedo], a going back, receding, retiring, retreat, departure; opp. accessus (class.; cf.

receptus): accessus ad res salutares, a pestiferis recessus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 12, 34:

ut luna accessu et recessu suo lumen accipiat,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 178.— Of the ebb of the tide:

quid de fretis aut de marinis aestibus plura dicam? quorum accessus et recessus lunae motu gubernantur,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 34; so Col. 8, 17, 9: recessum primis ultimi non dabant, i. e. means of retreat, * Caes. B. G. 5, 43; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1:

gemmae,

its removal from the eye, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 88: cum processui et recessui cani juberet, i. e. in going home, Treb. Gall. 17, 3; Amm. 20, 11, 8.—

Meton. (abstr. pro concreto), a distant, retired, or secret spot, a nook, corner, retreat, recess (acc. to recedo, I. B. 2.;

syn.: secessus, secretum): mihi solitudo et recessus provincia est,

Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2; cf.:

nos terrarum ac libertatis extremos recessus ipse ac sinus famae in hunc diem defendit,

our remote position itself and our distant renown, Tac. Agr. 30:

nec, sicut aestivas aves, statim auctumno tecta ac recessum circumspicere,

Liv. 5, 6, 2:

cum vox quasi in recessu oris auditur,

Quint. 1, 5, 32:

hic spelunca fuit, vasto submota recessu,

in a deep recess, Verg. A. 8, 193; cf. Ov. M. 3, 157; 10, 691; 11, 592:

ubi marmoreo Superi sedere recessu,

in the marble hall, id. ib. 1, 177:

oculi in recessu cavo,

Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 121.—In plur., Verg. A. 11, 527; Liv. 38, 45 (along with anguli); Vell. 2, 32, 4; Plin. 3, 1, 1, § 5; Quint. 11, 2, 18; Ov. M. 7, 670; 13, 902; id. F. 1, 555; Curt. 7, 2, 22.—

Trop.:

tum accessus a te ad causam facti, tum recessus,

advances and retreats, Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 7:

habeat illa in dicendo admiratio ac summa laus umbram aliquam et recessum, quo magis id, quod erit illuminatum, extare atque eminere videatur,

somewhat of shade and background, Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 101; cf.:

haec professio plus habet in recessu quam fronte promittit,

Quint. 1, 4, 2.—In plur.:

vita hominum altos recessus magnasque latebras habet,

Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 6:

in animis hominum tantae latebrae sunt et tanti recessus,

Cic. Marc. 7, 22:

strenua ingenia, quo plus recessus sumunt,

leisure, Val. Max. 3, 6, 1.

dēnŭō, adv. [contr. from dē nŏvo, which never occurs; v. Ruhnk. Ter. And. prol. 26; Oud. App. M. 3, p. 225.; cf.: Fr. de nouveau ], anew, afresh, again (most freq. in Plaut. and Ter.; elsewh. rare; not in Caes. or the Aug. poets—for syn. cf.: iterum, rursus, ab integro).

Of the restoration of a thing which has been destroyed, = de integro, anew, afresh, ek kainês:

aedificantur aedes totae denuo,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 36; cf.:

urbes terrae motu subversas denuo condidit,

Suet. Aug. 47:

oportet vos nasci denuo,

Vulg. Joan. 3, 7. —

For iterum, a second time, once more, again:

si parum intellexti, dicam denuo,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 59; cf. id. Mil. 3, 3, 3; id. Most. 1, 3, 66:

jam ego tibi Persam adducam denuo,

id. Pers. 5, 2, 47:

in Etruria rebellante denuo,

Liv. 10, 31:

denuo in voluntarium exsilium proficiscitur,

Just. 5, 5 fin. —

For rursus, of any thing that is repeated (not precisely a second time), once more, again; hence often with verbs compounded with re:

ecce Apollo denuo, etc.,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 115: So. Amphitruonis ego sum servus Sosia. Me. Etiam denuo? what, again? id. Amph. 1, 1, 238; 1, 1, 139; Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 60:

Sicilia censa denuo est,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 56:

recita denuo,

id. ib. 2, 1, 14.—Pleonast. with redire, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 51; cf. id. Truc. 2, 4, 42;

with redauspicari,

id. ib. 3, 5, 109;

with respondere,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 24;

with referre, id. Hec. prol. alt. 30. And sometimes with rursus (rursum),

Plaut. Cas. prol. 33; id. Poen. prol. 79. —

Like our again (in, I am going back again), Gr. au, where an action is reversed (mostly colloquial):

aperi... continuo operito denuo,

and then cover it up again, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 76; cf. id. Merc. 5, 2, 14; Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 4:

et nunc quid exspectat, Syre? an dum hinc denuo abeat, etc.,

id. ib. 3, 2, 32:

fiet tibi puniceum corium postea atrum denuo,

and then again back, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 61:

chlamydem sumam denuo,

id. Merc. 5, 2, 79; Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26; cf. Hand Turs. II. p. 278-280.

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a going back, retreat / place of retreat, quiet place.

rĕcī̆prŏcātĭo, ōnis, f. [reciproco].

Lit., a going back upon itself, a returning by the same way, retrogression (postAug.):

aestus,

i. e. the reflux. ebb, Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 29:

fili,

id. 11, 24, 28, § 83:

caprorum,

id. 8, 50, 76, § 201:

errantium siderum,

Gell. 14, 1, 23.—

Trop., alternation, reciprocation:

talionum,

retaliation, Gell. 20, 1, 18:

animorum,

the transmigration of souls, metempsychosis, Tert. ad Nat. 1, 19.—

In gram., reciprocal action, in the pron. recipr., Prisc. p. 940 P.

rĕgressĭo, ōnis, f. [regredior], a going back, return; a retiring, retreat (postAug.).

Lit.:

maturata,

App. M. 2, p. 122, 39:

vespertina,

id. ib. 9, p. 227, 17: non incruenta, Front. Princ. Hist. —

Trop., a fig. of rhetoric, repetition, the Gr. epanodos, Quint. 9, 3, 35; Rufin. Schem. Lex. 19 (p. 252 Frotsch.).

rĕgressus, a, um, Part., from regredior.

rĕgressus, ūs, m. [regredior], a going back, return, regress (class.).

Lit.:

nihil errat, quod in omni aeternitate conservat progressus et regressus reliquosque motus constantes et ratos,

Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 51:

regressus non dabat ille viro,

Ov. A. A. 2, 32; App. M. 9, p. 235, 34. — Poet.:

funditus occidimus neque habet Fortuna regressum,

Verg. A. 11, 413; Stat. S. 3, 3, 157.—

In milit. lang., a retreat:

regressus inde in tutum non esset,

Liv. 38, 4 fin.; Tac. A. 1, 51; Front. Strat. 1, 3, 10; 2, 5, 40; 3, 11, 3.—

Trop., a return, retreat, regress:

neque locus poenitendi aut regressūs ab irā relictus esset,

Liv. 24, 26 fin.:

est privatis cogitationibus regressus,

Tac. H. 2, 74; cf.: nullo ad poenitendum regressu, id. A. 4, 11:

consul regressum animoso ejus dicto obtulit,

Val. Max. 6, 2, 1.—

In jurid. lang., a remedy, reserve, resource:

nullum adversus venditorem habetis regressum,

Dig. 21, 2, 34.—

Transf., in gen.: ut contra judiciorum varietates superesset artificis regressus ad veniam, Plin. H. N. praef. § 26; Tac. A. 12, 10 fin.