(v. a.P. a.) : rĕ-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3 (
* Perf. reposivi, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16; part. sync. repostus, a, um, on account of the metre, Lucr. 1, 35; 3, 346; Verg. G. 3, 527; id. A. 1, 26; 6, 59; 655; 11, 149; Hor. Epod. 9, 1; Sil. 7, 507 al.), v. a., to lay, place, put, or set back, i. e.
* With the idea of the re predominant.
* To lay, place, put, or set a thing back in its former place; to replace, restore, etc. (class.; syn. remitto).
* With the idea of the verb predominant, to lay, place, put, set a thing anywhere (freq. and class.; syn. colloco).
* To bend backwards, lay back: (grues) mollia crura reponunt, bend back (in walking), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 Vahl.); imitated by Virgil: pullus mollia crura reponit,Verg. G. 3, 76: cervicem reponunt et bracchium in latus jactant,Quint. 4, 2, 39: tereti cervice repostā,Lucr. 1, 35: interim quartus (digitus) oblique reponitur,Quint. 11, 3, 99: hic potissimum et vocem flectunt et cervicem reponunt,id. 4, 2, 39: membra (mortui) toro,Verg. A. 6, 220: membra stratis,id. ib. 4, 392.
* Remote, distant (syn. remotus; very rare): penitusque repostas Massylum gentes,Verg. A. 6, 59: terrae,id. ib. 3, 364: populi,Sil. 3, 325 : convalles,App. M. 4, p. 145, 6.
* Laid aside, stored up: spes,Vulg. Col. 1, 5: corona justitiae,id. 2, Tim. 4, 8.
* To put in the place of, to substitute one thing for another (class.).
* Lit.: nec tempestive demetendi percipiendique fructūs neque condendi ac reponendi ulla pecudum scientia est, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156: cibum,Quint. 2, 4, 29: formicae farris acervum tecto reponunt,Verg. A. 4, 403: Caecubum ad festas dapes,Hor. Epod. 9, 1: mella in vetustatem,Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 44, 7: alimenta in hiemem,Quint. 2, 16, 16: (caseum) hiemi,Verg. G. 3, 403: omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones,id. ib. 1, 167: thesaurum,Quint. 2, 7, 4: scripta in aliquod tempus,id. 10, 4, 2.—Poet.: eadem (gratia) sequitur tellure repostos, i. e. conditos,buried,Verg. A. 6, 655; cf.: an poteris siccis mea fata reponere ocellis? (= me mortuum),Prop. 1, 17, 11: tu pias laetis animas reponis Sedibus,Hor. C. 1, 10, 17: repono infelix lacrimas, et tristia carmina servo,Stat. S. 5, 5, 47.
* To lay aside, to lay down, lay by, put away.
* Lit.: non puto te meas epistulas delere, ut reponas tuas,Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 2: Aristophanem pro Eupoli,id. Att. 12, 6, 2; Quint. 11, 2, 49: eorumque in vicem idonea reponenda,Col. 4, 26, 2: dira ne sedes vacet, monstrum repone majus,Sen. Phoen. 122.
* Trop.: at vero praeclarum diem illis reposuisti, Verria ut agerent,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52.
* Lit.: remum,Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16: arma omnia,Caes. B. C. 2, 14: caestus artemque,Verg. A. 5, 484: feretro reposto,id. ib. 11, 149: onus,Cat. 31, 8: telasque calathosque infectaque pensa,Ov. M. 4, 10; Sil. 7, 507: rursus sumptas figuras,Ov. M. 12, 557: bracchia,to let down,Val. Fl. 4, 279.—Poet.: jam falcem arbusta reponunt,i. e. permit to be laid aside,Verg. G. 2, 416.
* Trop.: brevem fugam,to end the flight,Stat. Th. 6, 592: iram,Manil. 2, 649.
* Lit.: grues in tergo praevolantium colla et capita reponunt,Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125: colla in plumis,Ov. M. 10, 269: litteras in gremio,Liv. 26, 15: hunc celso in ostro,Val. Fl. 3, 339: ligna super foco Large reponens,Hor. C. 1, 9, 6: (nidum) ante fores sacras reponit,Ov. M. 15, 407.— With in and acc.: uvas in vasa nova,Col. 12, 16: data sunt legatis, quae in aerarium reposuerant,Val. Max. 4, 3, 9: anulos in locellum,id. 7, 8, 9; cf.: mergum altius in terram,Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 205.
* Trop., to place, put, set; to place, count, reckon among: in vestrā mansuetudine atque humanitate causam totam repono,Cic. Sull. 33, 92: vos meam defensionem in aliquo artis loco reponetis,id. de Or. 2, 48, 198: suos hortatur, ut spem omnem in virtute reponant,Caes. B. C. 2, 41: in se omnem spem,Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 36: nihil spei in caritate civium,Liv. 1, 49; 2, 39: salutem ac libertatem in illorum armis dextrisque,id. 27, 45: verum honorem non in splendore titulorum, sed in judiciis hominum,Plin. Pan. 84, 8; id. Ep. 1, 3, 3: plus in duce quam in exercitu,Tac. G. 30; Liv. 24, 37: plus in deo quam in viribus reponentes,Just. 24, 8, 2: fiduciam in re reponere,Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; 1, 8, 14: ea facta, quae in obscuritate et silentio reponuntur,id. ib. 1, 8, 6: quos equidem in deorum immortalium coetu ac numero repono,place, count, reckon among,Cic. Sest. 68, 143; so, sidera in deorum numero,id. N. D. 2, 21, 54; cf. id. ib. 3, 19, 47 Mos. N. cr.: Catulum in clarissimorum hominum numero,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 90, § 210: aliquem in suis, Antonius ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1.— With in and acc.: homines morte deletos in deos,Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 38: in deorum numerum reponemus,id. ib. 3, 19, 47: Isocratem hunc in numerum non repono,id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17: aliquid in fabularum numerum,id. Inv. 1, 26, 39; and: hanc partem in numerum,id. ib. 1, 51, 97: in ejus sinum rem publicam,Suet. Aug. 94.—Hence, rĕpŏsĭ-tus (rĕpostus), a, um, P. a.