reciprocus

rĕcī̆prŏcus, a, um, adj. [perh. from reque proque, back and forth].

I.

Lit., turning back the same way, returning, receding ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose): apud Attium: reciproca tendens nervo equino concita Tela;

reciproca est, quom unde quid profectum, redit eo,

flung back, Varr. L. L. 7, § 80 Müll. (an imitation of the Homeric palintona toxa).—Esp. freq. of receding waters:

vadosum ac reciprocum mare,

Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 26:

amnes,

id. 9, 57, 83, § 176; 16, 36, 66, § 169; Tac. A. 1, 70;

and of the ebb and flow,

Plin. 2, 27, 99, § 213; hence, poet., an epithet of the sea, Sil. 3, 60.—

II.

Trop., alternating, reciprocal, etc.:

voces,

reverberating echoes, Plin. 2, 44, 44, § 115: argumenta, retorted, Gr. antistrephonta, Gell. 5, 10, 2:

ars,

alternaling, reciprocal, Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 3; cf.

taliones,

Gell. 20, 1, 35:

vices pugnandi,

id. 15, 18, 3:

epistulae,

Hier. Ep. 5, 1:

munus,

Aus. Ep. 7.—

2.

In gram., pronomen, a reciprocal pronoun, as sibi, se, Prisc. p. 939 P.: versus, which has the same metre when the order of words is reversed, e. g. Verg. A. 1, 8 (4); Diom. p. 515 P.— Hence, adv.: rĕcī̆prŏcē, alternately, to and fro (cf.:

invicem, vicissim): fluere,

Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9.— Transf., conversely, Prisc. 1142 P.