retraho

rē̆-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.

I.

To draw back, withdraw; to call back (class.).

A.

Lit.:

me retrahis,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 8;

aliquem,

Cic. Sen. 23, 83; Liv. 30, 20; 21, 63 (in the last two passages with revocare);

10, 25: bos domitus et procurrentem (bovem) retrahit, et cunctantem producit,

holds back, Col. 6, 2, 10: aliquem hinc, Lucceius ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 1:

Hannibalem in Africam (Scipio),

Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 56:

aliquem in urbem,

Caes. B. C. 1, 9:

manum,

Cic. Cael. 26, 63:

pedem,

Verg. A. 10, 307:

quo fata trahunt retrahuntque,

id. ib. 5, 709:

castra intra penitus,

Liv. 36, 17 Drak.:

occulere aut retrahere aliquid (pecuniae),

to keep back, withhold, id. 32, 38 fin.:

se,

Cic. Cael. 27, 64; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 58:

se ab ictu,

Ov. M. 3, 87:

se a convivio,

Cels. 1, 1, 5; Capitol. Anton. Phil. 14, 2.—

Mid.: (corpuscula complexa) inter se retrahuntur,

Lucr. 2, 155:

in servitutem retrahi,

Tac. A. 13, 26. —

2.

In partic., to drag back, bring back a fugitive, Caes. B. G. 5, 7; Liv. 2, 12; 25, 7:

ut retractus, non reversus, videretur,

Cic. Phil. 6, 4, 10; Sall. C. 39, 5:

ex fugā, 47, 4: fugientem,

Just. 38, 9, 6; 38, 10, 13. —

Hence, comically, of fugitive money,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 11; cf. also infra, B.—

B.

Trop., to draw back, withdraw, remove, etc.:

postquam poëta vetus poëtam non potest Retrahere ab studio,

to withdraw, remove, Ter. Phorm. prol. 2:

aliquem a re publicā,

Cic. Sest. 15, 34:

Thebas ab interitu,

Nep. Epam. 8, 4:

aliquem ex magnis detrimentis,

Suet. Aug. 71:

ex viginti trecentisque millibus ad centum quinquaginta retraxit,

i. e. he reduced them to one hundred and fifty thousand, Suet. Caes. 41 Oud.:

verba,

to keep back, suppress, Sen. Ep. 3, 6; so,

vires ingenii,

id. ib. 79, 3: noctes, to shorten, Manil. 4, 253:

stellae splendorem suum,

Vulg. Joel, 2, 10: genus ejusmodi calliditatis et calumniae retrahetur in odium judicis, is drawn or converted into, results in, Cic. Part. 39, 137:

imaginem nocturnae quietis ad spem haud dubiam retraxit,

Tac. A. 16, 1.—

With reference to the signif. A. 2: illa (verba), quae jam majoribus nostris ademit oblivio fugitiva,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 5 Müll. —

II.

To draw again or anew; to bring forth or to light again, make known again (so perh. only in Tac.).

A.

Lit.:

Caesar Antistium Veterem absolutum adulterii increpitis judicibus ad dicendam majestatis causam retraxit,

Tac. A. 3, 38:

aliquem postero die ad eosdem cruciatus,

id. ib. 15, 57:

Treviros in arma,

id. H. 4, 70 fin. —

B.

Trop.:

oblitterata aerarii monimenta,

Tac. A. 13, 23:

potiorem civitatis partem ad societatem Romanam,

id. H. 4, 56 fin. — Hence, rĕtractus, a, um, P. a., drawn back, lying back, remote, distant: emporium in intimo sinu Corinthiaco, Liv. 36, 21:

in trorsus sinus maris,

id. 26, 42.— Comp.:

retractior a mari murus,

Liv. 34, 9:

retractius paulo cubiculum,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 6:

retracti introrsum oculi,

deep-set, Sen. Contr. 1, 6.