(verb) : rĕ-texo, xui (retexi, Manil. 4, 214 dub.), xtum, 3
* To unweave, unravel what has been woven (class.).
* Lit.: quasi Penelope telam retexens,Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 95: tela retexta dolo,Ov. Am. 3, 9, 30: telas,Stat. S. 3, 5, 9.
* To weave again or anew; to renew, repeat (poet.; not anteAug.). — Trop.: properata retexite fata,i. e. call back to life,Ov. M. 10, 31: inde retro redeunt, idemque retexitur ordo,id. ib. 15, 249; cf. Verg. A. 12, 763.
* Trop., to break up, cancel, annul, reverse (cf.: resolvo, rescindo): multa quaerendo reperiunt non modo ea, quae jam non possint ipsi dissolvere, sed etiam quibus ante exorsa et potius detexta prope retexantur,Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 158: superiora (novi timores),id. Fam. 11, 14, 3: istius praeturam (opp. suam gerere),Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 63: illa (dicta),to take back,id. Fin. 5, 28, 84: orationem meam,to alter, change,id. Phil. 2, 13, 32: scriptorum quaeque,to revise, correct,Hor. S. 2, 3, 2: opus,Ov. P. 1, 3, 30; id. R. Am. 12: retegens caelum terque ora retexens,Stat. S. 5, 3, 29: jura,Manil. 4, 214: calumniae textum,App. Mag. p. 313, 38: an, quod adulescens praestiti, id nunc commutem ac me ipse retexam? and fashion myself anew, metamorphose myself, Masius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 5.
* To repeat, relate again, narrate: oro, mater, ordine mihi singula retexe,App. M. 9, p. 224, 30; so, orationem,Lampr. Alex. Sev. 6; Claud. B. Gild. 325; Aus. Idyll. 10, 298.