(v. a.P. a.) : rē-tracto (in many MSS. also written rētrecto), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. id..
* To take hold of or handle again; to take in hand again, undertake anew, etc. (class.; esp. in the trop. sense).
* Lit. (mostly poet.): arma,Liv. 2, 30: ferrum,Verg. A. 7, 694; 10, 396: gladios, Petr. poët. 89, 61: vulnera,to feel again,Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; 4, 4, 41; cf.: manu sua vota (i. e. the image),id. M. 10, 288: pedamenta,to go over again, retouch,Col. 4, 26, 1: agrum,to look over again, examine again,id. 1, 4, 1: dextras in bella,Sil. 10, 257: noctem,id. 3, 216. — Poet.: Venerem,Lucr. 4, 1200.
* To withdraw one's self from an act; to draw back, refuse, decline, be reluctant (class.).
* Absol.: veniet tempus et quidem celeriter et sive retractabis sive properabis,Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 76: Appius nunc vocari Icilium, nunc retractantem arripi jubet,Liv. 3, 49 Drak.; 3, 52; 37, 18; Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 19; Col. 2, 2, 26: aut quid jam, Turne, retractas,Verg. A. 12, 889.
* With acc., to withdraw, retract any thing: nihil est quod dicta retractent Ignavi Aeneadae,Verg. A. 12, 11: largitiones factas ante aliquantum tempus retractari non oportet, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 111 (112).— Transf., to detract from, disparage, = detrecto: retractandi levandique ejus operis gratiā,Gell. 14, 3, 4. — Hence, rētractātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), revised, corrected: retractatius σύνταγμα, Cic. Att. 16, 3, 1.