reposco

1.

rĕ-posco, ĕre, v. a., to demand back, to ask for again, as something belonging to one (class.); constr. aliquid; aliquid ab aliquo; more freq., aliquem aliquid, and absol.

I.

Lit.:

dedisti eam dono mihi: Eandem nunc reposcis,

Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 16:

quoi talentum mutuom dedi, reposcam,

id. Trin. 3, 2, 202:

quae deposueris,

Quint. 9, 2, 63:

pecuniam,

Tac. A. 1, 35:

ignes commissos,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 53:

fratrem clamore magno,

Sil. 17, 460:

ego ab hac puerum reposcam,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 76:

virginem,

id. Curc. 5, 2, 16:

aulam auri te reposco,

id. Aul. 4, 10, 33:

eum vidulum,

id. Rud. 5, 2, 65:

eum simulacrum Cereris,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51, § 113:

alter me Catilinam reposcebat,

id. Red. in Sen. 4, 10:

Parthos signa,

Verg. A. 7, 606:

(talenta) Thebani reposcunt Thessalos,

Quint. 5, 10, 111:

propensiores ad bene merendum quam ad reposcendum,

Cic. Lael. 9, 32. —

II.

Trop., to ask for, claim, demand, exact, require, as something due:

attentas aures animumque reposco,

Lucr. 6, 920:

quod natura reposcit,

id. 2, 369:

vitam (mea fata),

Prop. 2, 1, 71:

amissam meā virtutem voce,

Ov. M. 13, 235:

foedus flammis,

Verg. A. 12, 573:

responsa Ordine cuncta suo,

id. ib. 11, 240:

promissa,

id. ib. 12, 2:

pretium libelli,

Plin. Ep. 7, 12, 5:

gratiam,

id. ib. 1, 13, 6:

vicem,

Mart. 8, 38, 3:

natos poenas,

Verg. A. 2, 139 Forbig. ad loc. (Heyne, ad poenas):

ab altero rationem vitae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1: rationem (rei) ab aliquo, id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 27; Caes. B. G. 5, 30; cf.:

vos rationem reposcitis, quid Achaei Lacedaemoniis bello victis fecerimus?

Liv. 39, 37:

quid dicturos reposcentibus aut prospera aut adversa,

who demanded an account of their successes or reverses, Tac. H. 3, 13 fin.:

cave respuas, Ne poenas Nemesis reposcat a te,

Cat. 50, 20.

2.

rĕposco, ōnis, m. [1. reposco], one who makes a demand, who urges a claim, a dun:

acerrimi,

Amm. 22, 16, 23.