rĕ-plĭco, āvi (e. g. Vulg. Gen. 4, 27; id. Jos. 8, 35 al.), ātum (collat. form, replictae tunicae, Stat. S. 4, 9, 29), 1, v. a., to fold or roll back, to bend or turn back (cf.: revolvo, reflecto).
I Lit.: vel Euhemero replicato, vel Nicagorā, etc., unrolled , opened , Arn. 4, 147; cf. infra, II.: surculos in terram dimittito replicatoque ad vitis caput, bend back , Cato R. R. 41, 4; so, labra, Quint. 11, 3, 81; cf.: replicatā cervice, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 80; and: margine intus replicato, id. 9, 33, 52, § 102: ab omni laevitate acies radios tuos replicat, casts back , reflects , Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 7; cf.: quia radii solis replicantur, id. ib. 2, 10, 3: jocinera replicata, folded inwards , Suet. Aug. 95.—
II Trop., to unfold , unroll , turn over; to bend or turn back; to open : ut ne replices annalium memoriam, unfold , turn over , Cic. Sull. 9, 27; so, memoriam temporum, id. Leg. 3, 14, 41: traductio temporis nihil novi efficientis et primum quicque replicantis, unrolling , unwinding , id. Div. 1, 56, 127: cujus acumen nimis tenue retunditur et in se saepe replicatur, is bent back , Sen. Ben. 1, 4, 1: vestigium suum, to withdraw , i. e. to go back , Ap. Met. 4, 19, 7.—
B In partic.
1 To turn over and over in the mind , to think or reflect upon; to go over , repeat (post-class.): haec identidem mecum, Ap. Met. 3, 1, 15; titulos, singula, Prud. στεφ. 11, 3: necem, to tell again , Amm. 30, 1, 3: vitam, Sid. Ep. 7, 9: lamentum, Vulg. 2 Par. 35, 25; id. Num. 27, 23: quorum (glirium) magnitudo saepius replicata laudatur adsidue, Amm. 28, 4, 13: vultu adsimulato saepius replicando, quod, etc., id. 14, 11, 11. —
2 In jurid. and late Lat., to make a reply or replication , Dig. 2, 14, 35 fin. ; Greg. Mag. in Job, 16 init.