remeo

rĕ-mĕo, āvi, 1, v. n., to go or come back, to turn back, return (not freq. till after the [p. 1561] Aug. period; only once in Cic.; in Cæs. not at all; syn.: redeo, regredior).

I.

Lit.:

remeabo intro,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 55:

remeato audacter,

id. As. 1, 3, 75:

in ludum, Afr. ap. Fest. s. h. v. p. 277 Müll. (Com. Rel. p. 151 Rib.): in patriam,

Ov. M. 15, 480:

patrias in sedes,

Tac. A. 14, 25 fin.:

rursum in terga (with cedere),

id. ib. 3, 21:

ad se (legati),

Liv. 9, 16:

ex Campaniā,

Tac. A. 15, 60; cf.

Aegypto,

id. ib. 2, 69:

eodem remeante nuntio,

Liv. 9, 3:

navibus remeabat disjecto agmine,

Tac. H. 5, 22; cf. Suet. Vit. Plin. fin.:

(coturnices) cum ex Italiā trans mare remeant,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 8:

greges nocte remeabant ad stabula,

Liv. 24, 3, 5; Pall. 1, 39, 1. —

(β).

Poet. and late Lat. with acc.:

patrias remeabo inglorius urbes,

Verg. A. 11, 793:

Euboicos penates,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 12:

destinatas remeārunt sedes,

Amm. 17, 13, 34:

castra,

App. M. 7 pr.—

b.

Of inanimate subjects: cum umore consumpto neque terra ali posset neque remearet aër, would flow back again, * Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118:

(naves) mari remeabant,

Tac. A. 12, 17 fin.:

remeante flumine,

receding, id. H. 1, 86 fin.:

bis adfluunt bisque remeant (aquae),

Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 212.—

B.

In partic., to come back as a victor, return home in triumph ( poet.; cf. Cort. ad Luc. 7, 256; Burm. ad Val. Fl. 4, 589):

victor ad Argos,

Verg. A. 2, 95; cf.:

victor domito ab hoste,

Ov. M. 15, 569:

Scythicis Crassus victor ab oris,

Luc. 2, 553:

nunc neque te longi remeantem pompa triumphi Excipit,

id. 1, 286:

triumpho,

Stat. Th. 12, 164.—With acc.: vetitos remeare triumphos, to return home to the triumph denied ( me ), Luc. 7, 256.—

II.

Trop., to come back, return:

transiit aetas, Quam cito, non segnis stat remeatque dies,

Tib. 1, 4, 28.—With acc.:

si natura juberet A certis annis aevom remeare peractum,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 94.—In discourse:

ad ordinem remeabo coeptorum,

Amm. 22, 16, 24 al.

► Lengthened collat.

form remānant = remeant (like dănunt = dant, prodīnunt = prodeunt, redīnunt = redeunt): rivos camposque remanant, Enn. Fragm. ap. Fest. p. 282 Müll. (Ann. v. 72 Vahl.).