(verb) : rĕ-cĭpĕro (rĕcŭp-), āvi, ātum, 1, capio
* To get or obtain again; to regain, recover, etc. (good prose; cf.: reparo, redimo).
* Lit.: qui erepta recuperare vellet,Cic. Mur. 25, 50: amissa,Caes. B. G. 7, 15, 2; Nep. Tim. 3, 2: rem suam,Cic. Rep. 3, 32 fin.; cf.: suum, pecuniam,id. Fl. 23, 56: fortunas patrias,id. Phil. 13, 5, 12: paternas opes,Suet. Ner. 6: arma, ordinem militandi, locum,Liv. 25, 6: rem publicam,Cic. Phil. 14, 13, 35; id. Att. 8, 3, 2; id. Rosc. Am. 49, 141; cf. civitates,Caes. B. G. 7, 89fin.: provinciam,Tac. Agr. 5: Albanum, Formianum a Dolabellā,Cic. Phil. 13, 5, 11; cf.: pecuniam depositam ab illo,id. Agr. 2, 16, 41: obsides,Caes. B. G. 7, 43: Pelopidam,Nep. Pelop. 5, 2: captivos nostros a Carthaginiensibus,to retake, recover,Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 109.— With an abstr. object: veterem belli gloriam libertatemque,Caes. B. G. 7, 1 fin.; so, pristinam belli laudem,id. ib. 7, 76: libertatem,id. ib. 5, 27; id. B. C. 3, 91: vim suam,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 173; id. Att. 15, 13, 4: voluntatem ejus,id. ib. 1, 11, 1; cf. gratiam,Tac. A. 14, 5; Suet. Oth. 1: pacem,Sall. J. 29, 3: dignitatem,Quint. 11, 1, 79: gloriam,Tac. H. 2, 24: vires cibo somnoque,id. ib. 3, 22: judicia (equites),id. A. 11, 22 fin.: usum togae,to resume,Suet. Galb. 11.
* Trop.
* To obtain again, regain, recover: si et vos et me ipsum reciperaro,Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 3; cf.: illum per te,id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4 fin.: adulescentulos,to gain over again, regain,Nep. Ages. 6 fin.: se quiete reciperare,to recruit, recover themselves,Varr. R. R. 1, 13; so mid.: radices arborum reciperantur,Vitr. 2, 9.
* To revive, restore (late Lat.): crede Deo et reciperabit te,Vulg. Ecclus. 2, 6: templum,id. 2 Macc. 2, 23.