resero

1.

rĕ-sĕro, sēvi, 3, v. a., to sow or plant again; to plant with any thing, Varr. L. L. 5, § 39 Müll.; Col. 4, 33, 3; 3, 11, 2; Plin. 18, 20, 49, § 183.

2.

rĕ-sĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [3. sero], to unlock, unclose, open (syn.: recludo, pando, aperio; class.; esp. freq. after the Aug. per.).

I.

Lit.:

hi domos suas claudunt aut reserant,

Plin. 10, 21, 24, § 49; so,

fores,

Tib. 1, 2, 18; 1, 8, 60; Ov. M. 10, 384:

valvas,

id. ib. 4, 761:

postes,

Tib. 1, 2, 31:

limina,

Verg. A. 7, 613:

januam,

Ov. F. 2, 455:

carcerem,

id. Am. 3, 2, 77; cf.:

portas hosti,

id. A. A. 3, 577:

illi moenia,

id. M. 8, 61:

claustra,

Sil. 7, 334:

Italiam exteris gentibus,

Cic. Phil. 7, 1, 2 (cf. also Italiam, Tac. H. 3, 2 fin. ex conj.):

urbem reserare et pandere portas,

Verg. A. 12, 584:

infernas sedes (with recludere),

id. ib. 8, 244:

aures,

Liv. 40, 8 fin.:

pectus,

Ov. M. 6, 663: latebras insidiarum, Amm. 14, 11, 9:

urbem,

to take by storm, id. 15, 8, 19.— Poet.:

simulac species patefacta est verna diei Et reserata viget genetabilis aura Favoni,

Lucr. 1, 11.—

II.

Trop.

A.

In gen., to open, lay open, unclose: nos ausi reserare..., Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 51, 171 (Ann. v. 226 Vahl.):

nec ita claudenda res est familiaris, ut eam benignitas aperire non possit, nec ita reseranda, ut pateat omnibus,

Cic. Off. 2, 15, 55:

obsaepta diutinā servitute ora reseramus,

Plin. Pan. 66 fin.:

ubi, Jane biceps, longum reseraveris annum,

open, begin, Ov. P. 4, 4, 23; cf.:

aperire annum fastosque reserare (as consul),

Plin. Pan. 58, 4:

emicuit reserata dies,

Val. Fl. 1, 655.—

B.

In partic., to disclose, reveal something unknown:

oracula mentis,

Ov. M. 15, 145:

secreta,

Val. Fl. 2, 438:

futura,

Sil. 7, 436:

operta animi,

Mamert. Grat. Act. ad Julian. 17: commissa, Petr. poët. Fragm. 28, 6.