revoco

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

re-vocō āvī, ātus, āre,

to call again, call back, recall: Exclusit; revocat; redeam?H.: de medio cursu rei p. voce revocatus: revocatus de exsilio, L.: Caesar in Italiam revocabatur, Cs.—Of troops, to call back, recall, call off, withdraw: legiones revocari atque itinere resistere iubet, Cs.: quae receptui canunt, ut eos etiam revocent: tardius revocati proelio excesserant, S.: equites, Cs.: ab opere legiones, Cs.: consul ab revocando ad incitandos versus milites, L.; cf. fluctūs et flumina signo dato, O.—Of a player or declaimer, to call back, recall, encore: Livius saepius revocatus, L.: hunc vidi revocatum eandem rem dicere: primos trīs versūs, to encore: miliens revocatum est.—To recall to life, revive, bring back: revocatus a morte, V.: gelidos artūs in vivum calorem, O.—To summon again: hominem populus revocat, i. e. prosecute anew: si revocemur in suffragium, are called to vote again, L.—To summon in turn: unde tu me vocasti, inde ibi ego te revoco, i. e. I answer by demanding that you leave (the estate).—To ask again, invite in return: domum suam istum vocabat qui neque revocaturus esset: volpem, Ph.— To draw back, withdraw, turn back: revocata (Lumina) rursus eodem Retuleram, O.: cupidas manūs, O.: pedem ab alto, V.—Fig., to call back, recall, resume, renew, regain, recover: dies revocandae libertatis: et virīs et corpus amisi: sed, facile illa revocabo, will recover: (studia) remissa temporibus: quod, utcunque praetermissum, revocari non posset, L.: veteres artīs, H.: exordia pugnae, i. e. recall to mind, V.: ductores, revocato a sanguine Teucri, i. e. the restored race, V.—To recall, check, control: in vitibus revocantur ea, quae, etc., i. e. are pruned: vinolenti revocant se interdum, bethink themselves.—To recall, withdraw, divert, turn away: revocare se non poterat familiaritate implicatus, could not withdraw: quos spes praedandi ab agriculturā revocabat, Cs.: te a turpitudine: animum ab irā, O.: me ad pristina studia: se ad industriam.—To recall, divert, turn, bring: disceptationem ab rege ad Romanos, L.: ad quae me exempla revocas: comitiis tot civitatum unam in domum revocatis, i. e. crowded: ad spem consulatūs in partem revocandam aspirare, to bring over to themselves (of the plebs), L.—To apply, reduce, refer, subject, submit: omnia ad suam potentiam revocantis esse sententiam: revocata res ad populum est, L.: illa de urbis situ ad rationem: rem ad illam rationem.—To recall, revoke, retract, cancel, undo: libertatem, i. e. to enslave again, Ta.: si facta mihi revocare liceret, O.