(v. a.prep.adv.) : rĕ-pĕto, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 3, v. a.
* To fall upon or attack again or anew, to strike again (syn. repercutio).
* Lit. (in gen. not till after the Aug. per.): regem repetitum saepius cuspide ad terram affixit,after he had repeatedly attacked him,Liv. 4, 19; cf.: mulam calcibus et canem morsu,Sen. Ira, 3, 27, 1: repetita per ilia ferrum,Ov. M. 4, 733; 6, 562.— Absol.: bis cavere, bis repetere,to attack twice,Quint. 5, 13, 54: signum erat omnium, Repete!strike again,Suet. Calig. 58: ad Nolam armis repetendam,Liv. 9, 28: repetitus toxico,id. Claud. 44.
* In partic.
* Transf. (class.).
* To seek again; to go back to, return to, revisit a person or thing.
* With acc.: fratresque virumque,Ov. H. 3, 143: Nearchum,Hor. C. 3, 20, 6: Penates, ab orā Hispanā,id. ib. 3, 14, 3: viam, quā venisset,to retrace,Liv. 35, 28; cf. id. 9, 2, 8: castra,id. 31, 21; Suet. Tib. 12: domum,Hor. C. 1, 15, 6; Ov. P. 4, 4, 41; id. M. 3, 204: patriam,id. H. 18, 123; Just. 32, 3, 7: Africam,Liv. 25. 27: locum,id. 3, 63: retro Apuliam,id. 22, 18; cf. id. 31, 45 fin.; 40, 58 fin.: rursus Bithyniam,Suet. Caes. 2: urbem atque ordinem senatorium,id. Vit. 1: paludes,Hor. C. 3, 27, 9: cavum,id. Ep. 1, 7, 33: praesepia,Verg. E. 7, 39: urbem,id. A. 2, 749: Macedoniam,Nep. Eum. 6, 1: pugnam (shortly before, redire in pugnam),Liv. 37, 43: expeditionem,Suet. Claud. 1.
* With prep.: onerarias retro in Africam repetere,Liv. 25, 25 fin. Drak.: ad vada,Verg. Cul. 104: ad prima vestigia,Grat. Cyn. 245.
* Absol.: quid enim repetiimus (sc. patriam)?Liv. 5, 51.—Freq. in medic. lang., to return, recur: morbi repetunt,Cels. 2, 1; 3, 22; 4, 4; 14 al.
* To fetch, bring, or take back (cf. revoco).
* Lit.: filium istinc repetere,Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 72: repudiatus repetor,Ter. And. 1, 5, 14: Lysias est Atticus, quamquam Timaeus eum quasi Liciniā et Muciā lege repetit Syracusas,Cic. Brut. 16, 63: qui maxime me repetistis atque revocastis,id. Dom. 57, 144: navigo in Ephesum, ut aurum repetam ab Theotimo domum,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 7: ad haec (impedimenta) repetenda,Caes. B. C. 3, 76: aliquid ab Urbe,Suet. Calig. 39; cf.: thoracem Magni Alexandri e conditorio ejus,id. ib. 52fin.: partem reliquam copiarum continenti,id. Aug. 16: alii (elephanti) deinde repetiti ac trajecti sunt,others were then brought and passed over,Liv. 21, 28: ut alium repetat in eundem rogum,Sen. Oedip. 61.
* To ask, demand, or take again or back; to demand or claim what is due (syn. reposco).
* To take hold of or undertake again; to enter upon again; to recommence, resume, renew, repeat an action, a speech, etc. (cf.: renovo, restauro): praetermissa repetimus, incohata persequimur,Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 51: longo intervallo haec studia repetentem,id. Fat. 2, 4; id. Att. 15, 11, 1: oratio carens hac virtute (sc. ordine) necesse est multa repetat, multa transeat,Quint. 7, prooem. § 3: ad verbum repetita reddantur,id. 11, 2, 39 et saep.: eadem vetera consilia,Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 17: hoc primus repetas opus, hoc postremus omittas,Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 48: susurri Compositā repetantur horā,id. C. 1, 9, 20: relicta,id. Ep. 1, 7, 97: verba,Ov. H. 20, 9: audita,id. ib. 20, 193: repetitum Mulciber aevum Poscit,id. M. 9, 422: auspicia de integro,Liv. 5, 17: pugnam,id. 10, 36 acrius bellum, Just. 12, 2, 13: iter,Ov. A. A. 3, 747: sollemnia,Tac. A. 3, 6 fin.: spectacula ex antiquitate,to restore,Suet. Claud. 21; cf.: genera ignominiarum ex antiquitate,id. Tib. 19: legatum,Dig. 30, 1, 32: usum fructum,ib. 7, 4, 3.— With de: de mutatione litterarum nihil repetere hic necesse est,Quint. 1, 7, 13.— With object-clause: repetam necesse est, infinitas esse species,Quint. 6, 3, 101; 46: ut repetam coeptum pertexere dictis, Lucr. 1, 418; cf.: commemorare res,id. 6, 936.— Poet.: rĕpĕtītus, a, um, as an adv., repeatedly, anew, again: repetita suis percussit pectora palmis,Ov. M. 5, 473; 12, 287: robora caedit,id. ib. 8, 769: vellera mollibat longo tractu,by drawing out repeatedly,id. ib. 6, 20; cf.: haec decies repetita placebit,Hor. A. P. 365.
* In discourse, to draw, deduce, derive from anywhere; to go back to, begin from anywhere (cf. deduco): populum a stirpe,Cic. Rep. 3, 12, 21: repetere populi originem,id. ib. 2, 1, 3: ipsius juris ortum a fonte ... stirpem juris a naturā,id. Leg. 1, 6, 20: usque a Corace nescio quo et Tisiā,id. de Or. 1, 20, 91; 2, 2, 6: ab ultimā antiquitate,id. Fin. 1, 20, 65: brevis erit narratio, si non ab ultimo repetetur,id. Inv. 1, 20, 28; Quint. 5, 10, 83: aliquid a Platonis auctoritate,Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 34: ingressio non ex oratoriis disputationibus ducta sed e mediā philosophiā repetita,id. Or. 3, 11: res remotas ex litterarum monumentis,id. Inv. 1, 1, 1: initia amicitiae ex parentibus nostris, Bithyn. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 16 init.: verba ex ultimis tenebris, ex vetustate,Quint. 8, 3, 25; 11, 1, 49; 1, 4, 4: alte vero et, ut oportet, a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18: tam longa et tam alte repetita oratio,id. de Or. 3, 24, 91; id. Rep. 4, 4, 4: repetam paulo altius, etc.,id. Clu. 24, 66: altius omnem Expediam primā repetens ab origine famam,Verg. G. 4, 286; so, altius,Quint. 5, 7, 27; 6, 2, 2; 11, 1, 62; Suet. Ner. 2: transilire ante pedes posita et alia longe repetita sumere,Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 160; so, longe,id. Fam. 13, 29, 2; id. Div. 2, 58, 119: longius,id. Inv. 1, 49, 91; Quint. 5, 7, 17; 5, 11, 23: repetitis atque enumeratis diebus,reckoned backwards,Caes. B. C. 3, 105; so, repetitis diebus ex die vulneris,Dig. 9, 2, 51, § 2: repetitā die,ib. 10, 4, 9, § 6; 39, 2, 15, § 31; 43, 19, 1, § 10; 22, 4, 3.
* Repetere aliquid memoriā, memoriam rei, or (rarely without memoriā) aliquid, to call up again in the mind; to call to mind, recall, recollect (cf.: revoco, recordor): cogitanti mihi saepenumero et memoriā vetera repetenti,Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 1; id. Fam. 11, 27, 2; id. Rep. 1, 8, 13; Verg. A. 1, 372: repete memoriā tecum, quando, etc.,Sen. Brev. Vit. 3, 3; cf. with object-clause: memoriā repeto, diem esse hodiernum, quo, etc., Scipio Afric. ap. Gell. 4, 18, 3; Quint. 1, 6, 10: repete temporis illius memoriam,Cic. Deiot. 7, 20; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 47, § 105: memoriam ex annalibus,Liv. 8, 18: veteris cujusdam memoriae recordationem,Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 4.—Without memoriā: reminisci quom ea, quae tenuit mens ac memoria, cogitando repetuntur,Varr. L. L. 6, § 44 Müll.: si omnium mearum praecepta litterarum repetes, intelleges, etc.,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 7: supra repetere et paucis instituta majorum disserere,Sall. C. 5, 9: unde tuos primum repetam, mea Cynthia, fastus,Prop. 1, 18, 5: cum repeto noctem, quā, etc.,Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 3: te animo repetentem exempla tuorum,Verg. A. 12, 439.— With object-clause: repeto, me correptum ab eo, cur ambularem,Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 16; 7, 6, 7; 13; Suet. Gram. 4: multum ante repetito, concordem sibi conjugem, etc.,Tac. A. 3, 33.—Absol.: inde usque repetens, hoc video,Cic. Arch. 1, 1: genitor mihi talia (namque Nunc repeto) Anchises fatorum arcana reliquit,Verg. A. 7, 123; 3, 184.
* In gen.
* Lit.: si quis mutuom quid dederit, fit pro proprio perditum, quom repetas,Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 45; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 7: suom,id. Ps. 1, 3, 63: neque repeto pro illā quidquam abs te pretii,Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 11: bona sua,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 13, § 32: abs te sestertium miliens ex lege,id. Div. in Caecil. 5, 19: ereptas pecunias,id. ib. 5, 18; cf.: quae erepta sunt,id. Sull. 32, 89: mea promissa,id. Planc. 42, 101: obsides,Caes. B. G. 1, 31: urbes bello superatas in antiquum jus,Liv. 35, 16, 6: Homerum Colophonii civem esse dicunt suum, Chii suum vindicant, Salaminii repetunt,Cic. Arch. 8, 19: Cicero Gallum a Verticone repetit, qui litteras ad Caesarem referat,applied again for,Caes. B. G. 5, 49: si forte suas repetitum venerit plumas,Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 18: nec repetita sequi curet Proserpina matrem,Verg. G. 1, 39: Politorium rursus bello,to retake,Liv. 1, 33, 3.
* In partic., publicists' and jurid. t. t.
* Of the fetiales: repetere res, to demand back from the enemy things which they had taken as booty; hence, in gen., to demand satisfaction: (fetiales) mittebantur antequam conciperetur (bellum), qui res repeterent,Varr. L. L. 5, § 86 Müll.; Liv. 1, 32; 4, 30; 7, 6; 32; Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36: jure gentium res repeto,Sall. H. 3, 61, 17 Dietsch: amissa bello repetere,Just. 6, 6, 7; cf. clarigatio and clarigo.
* In jurid. lang.: res repetere, to demand back or reclaim one's property before a court: in iis rebus repetendis, quae mancipi sunt,Cic. Mur. 2, 3.— Hence, transf., in gen., to seek to obtain, to reclaim: non ex jure manum consertum, sed magi' ferro Rem repetunt, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 277 Vahl.).
* Pecuniae repetundae, or simply repetundae, money or other things extorted by a provincial governor, and that are to be restored (at a later period, referring to any bribed officer): L. Piso legem de pecuniis repetundis primus tulit,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 195; 2, 4, 25, § 56; id. Brut. 27, 106; id. Off. 2, 21, 75: quorum causā judicium de pecuniis repetundis est constitutum,id. Div. in Caecil. 4, 11: clames te lege pecuniarum repetundarum non teneri,id. Clu. 53, 148: pecuniarum repetundarum reus,Sall. C. 18, 3: oppugnatus in judicio pecuniarum repetundarum,id. ib. 49, 2: quā lege a senatore ratio repeti solet de pecuniis repetundis,Cic. Clu. 37, 104: accusare de pecuniis repetundis,id. Rab. Post. 4, 9; id. Clu. 41, 114: cum de pecuniis repetundis nomen cujuspiam deferatur,id. Div. in Caecil. 3, 10: de pecuniis repetundis ad recuperatores itum est,Tac. A. 1, 74 fin.—With ellipsis of pecuniis: repetundarum causae, crimen, lex,Quint. 4, 2, 85; 5, 7, 5; 4, 2, 15; Tac. A. 4, 19; 13, 43; 12, 22; 13, 33; id. H. 1, 77; 4, 45; Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 3: repetundarum reus,Val. Max. 9, 12, 7: repetundarum argui,Tac. A. 3, 33: accusare,Suet. Dom. 8: postulari,Tac. A. 3, 66; Suet. Caes. 4: absolvi,Tac. A. 13, 30: convinci,Suet. Caes. 43: damnari,Tac. A. 3, 70; 14, 28: teneri,id. ib. 11, 7: Pilius de repetundis eum postulavit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 2 (for which, § 3, de pecuniis repetundis): neque absolutus neque damnatus Servilius de repetundis,id. ib. § 3: damnatum repetundis consularem virum,Suet. Oth. 2 fin.