remoror

rĕ-mŏror, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. and a.

I.

Neutr., to stay, tarry, linger, loiter, delay (so rarely):

nam quid illaec nunc tam diu intus remorantur remeligines?

Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 7:

ibi corpora,

Lucr. 2, 75:

res nulla foris,

id. 2, 158:

in concilio,

id. 2, 564; cf.:

in Italiā,

Liv. 27, 12, 3:

sed postquam remorata suos cognovit amores,

Ov. M. 4, 137:

perge, ne remorare. Non diu remoratus es: Jam venis,

Cat. 61, 200 sq.:

Etesiae contra fluvium flantes remorantur,

Lucr. 6, 717.—

II.

Act., to hold back, stay, detain, obstruct, hinder, delay, defer (syn. retardare;

freq. and class.): aliquem,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 46:

haec edepol remorata med est,

id. Ep. 5, 1, 23; id. Rud. 4, 6, 4 et saep.:

di illum perdant, qui me hodie remoratus est,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 11:

eae res, quae ceteros remorari solent, non retardarunt,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14, 40:

nox atque praeda castrorum hostes quominus victoriā uterentur remorata sunt,

Sall. J. 38, 8; Prop. 1, 6, 5:

quamvis te longae remorentur fata senectae,

i. e. should preserve you to a good old age, id. 1, 19, 17:

num unum diem postea L. Saturninum tribunum plebis et C. Servilium praetorem mors ac poena remorata est?

i. e. was it put off, deferred? Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 4; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:

cur non remoratur ituros,

Ov. M. 13, 220.— Absol.:

ab negotiis numquam voluptas remorata,

Sall. J. 95, 3.—With inanimate and abstract objects:

alicujus commodum,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 24:

scio te me iis epistulis potius et meas spes solitum esse remorari,

Cic. Att. 3, 14, 1:

alicujus iter,

Sall. J. 50, 1; so,

iter,

Ov. M. 11, 233.— Absol.:

fugiunt, freno non remorante, dies,

Ov. F. 6, 772.

► rĕmŏrātus, a, um, in a pass. signif.:

remorandust gradus,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 28:

pomi jactu remorata (Atalanta),

Ov. M. 10, 671.