rĕ-surgo, surrexi, surrectum, 3, v. n., to rise or raise one’s self again, to appear again (poet. and post-Aug.; once in Liv. with velut; v. infra).
I Lit.: pugnat resurgere saepe, Ov. M. 5, 349: si resurgat centimanus Gyges, Hor. C. 2, 17, 14; Tac. A. 3, 46; cf., of convalescent persons: resurgam, Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 23.— Esp., to rise again , rise from the grave (eccl. Lat.): ab inferis, Lact. 4, 19, 6; 4, 26, 3; Vulg. Marc. 9, 8; id. Luc. 7, 22.—Of things: cupressus arbor repente prociderat ac postero die eodem vestigio resurgens procera et latior virebat, Tac. H. 2, 78; Suet. Vesp. 5; Plin. 16, 32, 57, § 132: herbae, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 9: obruta cymba de mediis aquis, id. P. 4, 8, 28: orbe lunaria cornua nono, id. M. 2, 453; 8, 11; 7, 81: urbs, is rebuilt , Tac. A. 15, 41.—
II Trop. (cf. resisto): cum res Romana velut resurgeret, Liv. 24, 45; cf.: illic fas regna resurgere Trojae, Verg. A. 1, 206; and with this cf.: arma resurgentis Trojae (i.e. Romae), Prop. 4 (5), 1, 47; 87 (53 M.): victa tamen vinces, eversaque Troja, resurges, Ov. F. 1, 523: resurgens Saevit amor, Verg. A. 4, 531: bellum, Vell. 2, 88, 13; Tac. A. 3, 74: rabies, id. ib. 1, 39: partes in Africā, id. ib. 2, 43: legiones resurgere in ultionem properent, id. H. 3, 2: cum eum ceteri ita vicerint ut major instaurando bello resurgeret, Just. 37, 1, 8: ac ne tam longā quidem aetate, quae excidium ejus secuta est, resurrexit, Curt. 5, 7, 9: resurgit verae virtutis fortior fama, Quint. 12, 9, 4: ter si resurgat murus aëneus, Hor. C. 3, 3, 65.