rĕcursus, ūs, m. [recurro].
I Lit., a running back , going back , return , retreat , etc. (not ante-Aug.; and in the poets mostly in the plur.; in the sing., Ov. M. 11, 454): inde alios ineunt cursus aliosque recursus, Verg. A. 5, 583: ut recursus pateret, Liv. 26, 42 fin. ; cf.: dent modo fata recursus, Ov. H. 6, 59; and id. M. 9, 593: celeres missae spondere recursus, id. ib. 6, 450: celerem recursum precatus est, Plin. Pan. 86, 4; Flor. 4, 11, 6 et saep.: per alternos undā labente recursus, Ov. Ib. 423; cf.: Lydia perfusa flexuosi amnis Maeandri recursibus, i. e. windings , Plin. 5, 29, 30, § 110: poti liquoris, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 2, 8.—Concr., a returning path , way back : (labyrinthus) itinerum ambages occursusque ac recursus inexplicabiles continet, Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 85.—
II Trop.
1 A returning , return : recursus ad bonam valetudinem, Cels. 4, 4: ad pristinum militiae ordinem, Val. Max. 2, 7, 15.—
2 Of vision, sight, reach , the power to bring back an image : specula, cum procul abducta sunt, faciem non reddunt, quia acies nostra non habet usque ad nos recursum, Sen. Q. N. 1, 13, 2.—
3 In law t. t., recourse : ad judicem a quo fuerit provocatum, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 6.