repraesento

rĕ-praesento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

I.

To bring before one, to bring back; to show, exhibit, display, manifest, represent (class.):

per quas (visiones) imagines rerum absentium ita repraesentantur animo, ut eas cernere oculis ac praesentes habere videamur,

Quint. 6, 2, 29:

memoriae vis repraesentat aliquid,

id. 11, 2, 1; cf. Plin. Ep. 9, 28, 3:

quod templum repraesentabat memoriam consulatūs mei,

Cic. Sest. 11, 26: si quis vultu torvo ferus simulet Catonem, Virtutemne repraesentet moresque Catonis? * Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 14:

imbecillitatem ingenii mei,

Val. Max. 2, 7, 6:

movendi ratio aut in repraesentandis est aut imitandis adfectibus,

Quint. 11, 3, 156:

urbis species repraesentabatur animis,

Curt. 3, 10, 7; cf.:

affectum patris amissi,

Plin. Ep. 4, 19, 1:

nam et vera esse et apte ad repraesentandam iram deūm ficta possunt,

Liv. 8, 6, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.:

volumina,

to recite, repeat, Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 89:

viridem saporem olivarum etiam post annum,

Col. 12, 47, 8:

faciem veri maris,

id. 8, 17, 6:

colorem constantius,

to show, exhibit, Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 112:

vicem olei,

i. e. to supply the place of, id. 28, 10, 45, § 160; cf. id. 18, 14, 36, § 134.—

B.

Of painters, sculptors, etc., to represent, portray, etc. (post-Aug. for adumbro):

Niceratus repraesentavit Alcibiadem,

Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 88.—With se, to present one ' s self, be present, Col. 1, 8, 11; 11, 1, 26; Dig. 48, 5, 15, § 3.—

II.

In partic., mercant. t. t., to pay immediately or on the spot; to pay in ready money: reliquae pecuniae vel usuram [p. 1572] Silio pendemus, dum a Faberio vel ab aliquo qui Faberio debet, repraesentabimus, shall be enabled to pay immediately, Cic. Att. 12, 25, 1; 12, 29, 2:

summam,

Suet. Aug. 101:

legata,

id. Calig. 16:

mercedem,

id. Claud. 18; id. Oth. 5; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 2 Oud. N. cr.:

dies promissorum adest: quem etiam repraesentabo, si adveneris,

shall even anticipate, Cic. Fam. 16, 14, 2; cf. fideicommissum, to discharge immediately or in advance, Dig. 35, 1, 36.—

B.

Transf., in gen., to do, perform, or execute any act immediately, without delay, forthwith; hence, not to defer or put off; to hasten (good prose): se, quod in longiorem diem collaturus esset, repraesentaturum et proximā nocte castra moturum, * Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

festinasse se repraesentare consilium,

Curt. 6, 11, 33:

petis a me, ut id quod in diem suum dixeram debere differri, repraesentem,

Sen. Ep. 95, 1; and Front. Aquaed. 119 fin.:

neque exspectare temporis medicinam, quam repraesentare ratione possimus,

to apply it immediately, Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 6; so,

improbitatem suam,

to hurry on, id. Att. 16, 2, 3:

spectaculum,

Suet. Calig. 58:

tormenta poenasque,

id. Claud. 34:

poenam,

Phaedr. 3, 10, 32; Val. Max. 6, 5, ext. 4:

verbera et plagas,

Suet. Vit. 10:

vocem,

to sing immediately, id. Ner. 21 et saep.:

si repraesentari morte meā libertas civitatis potest,

can be immediately recovered, Cic. Phil. 2, 46, 118:

minas irasque caelestes,

to fulfil immediately, Liv. 2, 36, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.; cf. Suet. Claud. 38:

judicia repraesentata,

held on the spot, without preparation, Quint. 10, 7, 2.—

C.

To represent, stand in the place of (late Lat.): nostra per eum repraesentetur auctoritas, Greg. M. Ep. 1, 1.