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(verb) : rĕ -sisto, stĭti, 3
* To stand back, remain standing anywhere (cf. resideo); to stand still, halt, stop, stay; to stay behind, remain, continue (class.; less freq. than consistere).
* Lit.: dabo μέγα κακόν, nisi resistis ... Mane ... Mane atque asta, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 10; cf. id. Truc. 4, 2, 38; 41: Resiste!Stop! Halt!Ter. And. 2, 2, 7; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 10; Poët. ap. Sen. Ep. 89, 6: quaeso ubinam illic restitit miles modo?Plaut. Poen. 2, 22; cf.: ubi restiteras?id. Ps. 4, 1, 9: heus! heus! tibi dico, Chaerea, inquit, restiti,Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 46; 2, 3, 12: ubi ille saepius appellatus aspexit ac restitit,Caes. B. C. 2, 35; cf.: ad haec revocantis verba resistit,Ov. M. 1, 503: ad omnes municipiorum villarumque amoenitates,Tac. H. 2, 87: restitere Romani, tamquam caelesti voce jussi,Liv. 1, 12, 7: neque certum inveniri poterat, obtinendine Brundisii causā ibi remansisset ... an inopiā navium ibi restitisset,Caes. B. C. 1, 25: postero die cum duabus legionibus in occulto restitit,id. B. G. 7, 35: Jubam revocatum finitimo bello restitisse in regno,id. B. C. 2, 38: Vettius negabat, se umquam cum Curione restitisse, that he had stopped (to talk), Cic. Att. 2, 24, 2 (al. constitisse): nihil est ubi lapsi resistamus,id. Mur. 39, 84: hostes dat in fugam, sic ut omnino pugnandi causă restiterit nemo,Caes. B. G. 5, 51 fin.: qui restitissent (sc. in urbe),Cic. Cat. 3, 2, 3; Liv. 37, 21: nec ante restitit, quam, etc.,id. 2, 59: cernes saepe resistere equos,Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 54.
* To withstand, oppose, resist; to make opposition or resistance (so most freq.; cf.: repugno, adversor).
* Trop.: nec resistet (vita) extra fores limenque carceris,Cic. Tusc. 5, 28, 80: quod optabile, id expetendum: quod expetendum, laudabile: deinde reliqui gradus. Sed ego in hoc resisto,I stop at this, pause here,id. Fin. 4, 18, 50; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 55; cf.: ad thalami clausas, Musa, resiste fores,Ov. A. A. 2, 704: incipit effari mediāque in voce resistit,Verg. A. 4, 76: cursus ad singula vestigia resistit,Quint. 10, 7, 14: resistens ac salebrosa oratio,id. 11, 2, 46 Spald.: verba resistunt,Ov. H. 13, 121: in secundo loco,Plin. Pan. 10, 4.
* To rise again (very rare, and only trop.; syn. resurgo): post ex fluvio fortuna resistet, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 47 Vahl.): nihil est jam, unde nos reficiamus, aut ubi lapsi resistamus,we can raise ourselves up, rise again,Cic. Mur. 39, 84.
* With dat.: cum legiones hostibus resisterent,Caes. B. G. 2, 22: paulisper nostris,id. ib. 4, 14: venientibus, signa inferentibus,id. B. C. 1, 55; 1, 82 fin.: eruptionibus,id. B. G. 7, 24 fin.: repentinae Gallorum conjurationi,id. ib. 5, 27.—Pass. impers.: alicui in acie,Nep. Hann. 5, 4: neque ulla multitudine in unum locum coactā, resisti posse Romanis,Hirt. B. G. 8, 2.
* In gen.: omnia consilia consulatūs mei, quibus illi tribuno plebis pro re publicā restitissem,Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 48: alicui rei publicae causā,id. Fam. 5, 2, 6: injuriis,id. ib. 1, 5, b, 2: fortiter dolori ac fortunae,id. ib. 5, 17, 3; cf.: vix dolori,id. ib. 4, 6, 1: defensioni,i. e. to reply to,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 1, § 1: factioni inimicorum,Sall. C. 34, 2: sceleri,Ov. M. 10, 322: resistere et repugnare contra veritatem non audet,Cic. Rosc. Com. 17, 51.— Impers. pass.: omnibus his (sententiis) resistitur,Caes. B. C. 1, 4; Cic. Lael. 12, 41; Quint. 4, 2, 14; 6, 4, 10: cui nec virtute resisti potest,Ov. M. 9, 200 al. — Absol.: restitit et pervicit Cato, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 8; Caes. B. C. 3, 21: resistentibus collegis,Sall. J. 37, 2: patricii contra vi resistunt,Liv. 3, 13 Drak. N. cr.: ne qua sibi statua poneretur, restitit,Nep. Att. 3, 2.—Impers. pass.: cum a Cottā primisque ordinibus acriter resisteretur,Caes. B. G. 5, 30: vix deorum opibus, quin obruatur Romana res, resisti posse,Liv. 4, 43.
* Transf., of things: (plaustra) adversus tempestatem nocentem non resistunt,Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 2; cf.: (fundamenta) valenter resistent contra ea, quae, etc.,Col. 1, 5, 9: (Symplegades) Quae nunc immotae perstant ventisque resistunt,Ov. M. 15, 339; cf.: indejecta domus tanto malo,id. ib. 1, 288: radices frigori,Plin. 19, 5, 23, § 68: silex vehementer igni,id. 36, 22, 49, § 169: haec gemmarum genera scalpturae,id. 37, 7, 30, § 104. — Hence, of medicines, to resist, act against a disease: amiantus veneficiis resistit omnibus,Plin. 36, 19, 31, § 139; 23, 8, 80, § 152; 30, 11, 28, § 93 al.: vis tribunicia libidini restitit consulari,Cic. Agr. 2, 6.—Absol.: ut ripae fluminis cedunt aut prominentia montium resistunt,projecting mountains advance into it,Tac. A. 2, 16: ni vis humana resistat,Lucr. 5, 207: mollis ac minime resistens ad calamitates perferendas mens eorum est,Caes. B. G. 3, 19 fin.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
Lewis Short
rĕ, or with
* D demonstrative (see the letter D), rĕd (so, too, before vowels and h; also in red-do, and with the union-vowel i in rĕdĭ-vivus. In reicio and often in later Latin re is found before vowels and h; e. g. reaedifico, reexinanio, reinvito, etc. Assimilation of the d before consonants produced the forms relligio, relliquiae, reccido; and the suppression of the d may account for the frequent lengthening of the e by poets in rēduco, rēlatum. The orthography and quantity of words compounded with re are in general somewhat arbitrary, especially in the ante- and post-class. poets). An inseparable particle, whose fundamental signification answers to the Engl. again and against. Thus, it denotes either
* A turning back ward (Engl. back): recedo, recurro, reicio, remitto, resolvo, etc.; or
* Trop.
* A restoration of a thing to its original condition (e. g. a freeing or loosing from a state of constraint; Engl. re-, un-): redintegro, reficio, restituo, relaxo, relego, resero, recludo, resolvo, retego, etc.
* A transition into an opposite state: recharmido, reprobo (opp. comprobo), retracto, revelo.
* A repetition of an action: recoquo, resumo, reviso, etc.
* It is sometimes intensive, as redundo.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary