revinco

rĕ-vinco, vīci, victum, 3, v. a., to conquer, subdue.

I.

Lit. (only poet., and in Tac.):

victrices catervae Consiliis juvenis revictae,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 24; cf.:

revicta conjuratio,

repressed, checked, Tac. A. 15, 73:

primordia rerum aliquā ratione,

Lucr. 1, 593:

vires (ignis),

id. 5, 410.—

II.

Trop., to convict; to refute, disprove (class.;

syn.: convinco, refuto),

Lucr. 4, 488: numquam hic neque suo neque amicorum judicio revincetur, * Cic. Arch. 6, 11:

aliquem,

Tac. A. 6, 5:

aliquem in mendacio,

Dig. 26, 10, 3:

aliquem in culpā et in maleficio,

Gell. 6, 2, 13:

crimina rebus revicta,

disproved, Liv. 6, 26, 7 (with confutare verbis); Vulg. Act. 18, 28:

crimen,

Liv. 40, 16:

testimoniis revinci,

Lact. 4, 15 fin.