(verb) : rĕ-sūmo, mpsi, mptum, 3
* To take up again, take back, resume (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit. (terra) gentes omnis peperit et resumit denuo, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 64 Müll. (Epich. v. 4 Vahl. p. 168): positas (tabellas) resumit,Ov. M. 9, 524: tela,id. Am. 2, 9, 34: librum perlectum utique ex integro,Quint. 10, 1, 20: librum in manus,id. 10, 4, 3: pugillares,Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 16: cito elapsum baculum,Suet. Ner 24: fuscinam,id. Calig. 30: arma,id. ib. 48; Tac. H. 2, 44; 4, 76 fin.: praetextas (opp. exuere),Plin. Pan. 61, 8: pennas,Ov. M. 4, 664: speciem caelestem,id. ib. 15, 743.
* Trop.: instat anhelanti prohibetque resumere vires, to get or receive again, to recover, Ov. M. 9, 59; so, vires,id. ib. 9, 193; Just. 20, 5, 1; 24, 7, 1: potentiam,id. 6, 4, 1: interruptum somnum,Suet. Aug. 78: animum,id. Vit. 15: animam,Sen. Herc. Oet. 25; cf.: resumpto spiritu recreatus est,Vulg. Judith, 13, 30: nomen gentile (opp. deponere),Suet. Ner. 41: sacramentum Vespasiani,Tac. H. 4, 37: militiam,id. ib. 2, 67; cf. pugnam,to renew,id. ib. 2, 41: hostilia,id. A. 12, 15: dominationem per arma,id. H. 5, 8: libertatem,id. A. 3, 40; 14, 31; Plin. Pan. 66, 2: curas,id. ib. 79, 5: nomen,id. Ep. 5, 6, 12: instituta cultumque patrium,Tac. H. 4, 64: voluptates (with repetere sollemnia),id. A. 3, 6 et saep.: aegrotantem,to restore,Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 1, 3; 18, 105; id. Tard. 3, 7, 91.