recipero

rĕ-cĭpĕro ( rĕcŭp- ), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [capio], to get or obtain again; to regain, recover, etc. (good prose; cf.: reparo, redimo).

I.

Lit.:

qui erepta recuperare vellet,

Cic. Mur. 25, 50:

amissa,

Caes. B. G. 7, 15, 2; Nep. Tim. 3, 2:

rem suam,

Cic. Rep. 3, 32 fin.; cf.:

suum, pecuniam,

id. Fl. 23, 56:

fortunas patrias,

id. Phil. 13, 5, 12:

paternas opes,

Suet. Ner. 6:

arma, ordinem militandi, locum,

Liv. 25, 6:

rem publicam,

Cic. Phil. 14, 13, 35; id. Att. 8, 3, 2; id. Rosc. Am. 49, 141; cf.

civitates,

Caes. B. G. 7, 89 fin.:

provinciam,

Tac. Agr. 5:

Albanum, Formianum a Dolabellā,

Cic. Phil. 13, 5, 11; cf.:

pecuniam depositam ab illo,

id. Agr. 2, 16, 41:

obsides,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43:

Pelopidam,

Nep. Pelop. 5, 2:

captivos nostros a Carthaginiensibus,

to retake, recover, Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 109.—

With an abstr. object: veterem belli gloriam libertatemque,

Caes. B. G. 7, 1 fin.; so,

pristinam belli laudem,

id. ib. 7, 76:

libertatem,

id. ib. 5, 27; id. B. C. 3, 91:

vim suam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 173; id. Att. 15, 13, 4:

voluntatem ejus,

id. ib. 1, 11, 1; cf.

gratiam,

Tac. A. 14, 5; Suet. Oth. 1:

pacem,

Sall. J. 29, 3:

dignitatem,

Quint. 11, 1, 79:

gloriam,

Tac. H. 2, 24:

vires cibo somnoque,

id. ib. 3, 22:

judicia (equites),

id. A. 11, 22 fin.:

usum togae,

to resume, Suet. Galb. 11.—

II.

Trop.

A.

To obtain again, regain, recover:

si et vos et me ipsum reciperaro,

Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 3; cf.:

illum per te,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4 fin.:

adulescentulos,

to gain over again, regain, Nep. Ages. 6 fin.:

se quiete reciperare,

to recruit, recover themselves, Varr. R. R. 1, 13;

so mid.: radices arborum reciperantur,

Vitr. 2, 9.—

B.

To revive, restore (late Lat.):

crede Deo et reciperabit te,

Vulg. Ecclus. 2, 6:

templum,

id. 2 Macc. 2, 23.