recito

rĕ-cĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

I.

In the best prose, a publicist's t. t., to read out, recite a document, statement, report, etc., in public proceedings:

alicujus testimonium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8, § 23; cf.:

testimonia tabulasve,

Quint. 7, 10, 13:

litteras in concione,

Cic. Att. 8, 9, 2:

litteras in senatu,

id. Fam. 10, 12, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 1; Sall. C. 34, 3; cf. Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 1; 12, 25, 1; Caes. B. G. 7, 48:

edictum,

Cic. Quint. 29, 89; id. Verr. 2, 3, 10, § 26:

orationem,

id. Planc. 30, 74:

nolo cetera recitare,

id. ib.:

epistulam meam,

id. Sull. 24, 67:

quid ego nunc hic Chlori testimonium recitem?

id. Verr. 2, 2, 8, § 23:

rogationem suam populo,

Quint. 10, 5, 13:

testamentum,

id. 9, 2, 35:

recitet ex codice,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 10, § 26; so,

responsum ex scripto,

Liv. 23, 11:

de tabulis publicis,

Cic. Fl. 17, 40:

auctionem populi Romani de legis scripto,

id. Agr. 2, 18, 48:

elogium de testamento,

id. Clu. 48, 135.—

Of persons: testamento si recitatus heres esset pupillus Cornelius,

Cic. Caecin. 19, 54; so,

heres,

Plin. 7, 52, 53, § 177:

aliquem praeterire in recitando senatu,

in the list of senators, Cic. Dom. 32, 84; so,

senatum,

Liv. 29, 37: aut recitatis in actione, aut nominatis testibus, by reading over the witnesses (i. e. their testimony) or by simply naming them, Quint. 5, 7, 25; v. Spald. ad h. l. —

II.

In gen., to read out, recite any thing in public (freq. since the Aug. per., after which it became customary to recite one's own works before audiences; cf.: pronuntio, declamo): To. At clare recitato. Do. Tace, dum perlego, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 30:

postquam recitasti quod erat cerae creditum,

id. ib. 4, 3, 59:

in medio, qui Scripta foro recitent, sunt multi,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 75; cf. id. ib. 1, 4, 23; id. Ep. 1, 19, 42; 2, 1, 223; Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 45; id. P. 3, 5, 39; Juv. 8, 126; 3, 9; Plin. Ep. 7, 17, 1; 1, 5, 4; 1, 13; 2, 10, 6 et saep. al.—With dat.:

nec recitem cuiquam nisi amicis,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 73:

Quinctilio si quid recitares,

id. A. P. 438:

nec illi... verba ultra suppeditavere quam ut sacramentum recitaret,

Tac. H. 4, 59.—

B.

To repeat from memory, say by heart, recite:

quin etiam recitare, si qua meminerunt, cogendi sunt (phrenetici),

Cels. 3, 18, 39; Mart. 9, 83, 4. —

C.

Of prayers, to say, offer (eccl. Lat.):

orationes,

Vulg. Tob. 3, 25.