rĕ-cĭpĕro — Lewis & Short
rĕ-cĭpĕro (rĕcŭp-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.capio,
I to get or obtain again; to regain, recover, etc. (good prose; cf.: reparo, redimo).
I Lit.:
qui erepta recuperare vellet,Cic. Mur. 25, 50:
amissa,Caes. B. G. 7, 15, 2; Nep. Tim. 3, 2:
rem suam,Cic. Rep. 3, 32 fin.; cf.:
suum, pecuniam,id. Fl. 23, 56:
fortunas patrias,id. Phil. 13, 5, 12:
paternas opes,Suet. Ner. 6:
arma, ordinem militandi, locum,Liv. 25, 6:
rem publicam,Cic. Phil. 14, 13, 35; id. Att. 8, 3, 2; id. Rosc. Am. 49, 141; cf.
civitates,Caes. B. G. 7, 89 fin.:
provinciam,Tac. Agr. 5:
Albanum, Formianum a Dolabellā,Cic. Phil. 13, 5, 11; cf.:
pecuniam depositam ab illo,id. Agr. 2, 16, 41:
obsides,Caes. B. G. 7, 43:
Pelopidam,Nep. Pelop. 5, 2:
captivos nostros a Carthaginiensibus,to retake, recover, Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 109.—
With an abstr. object: veterem belli gloriam libertatemque,Caes. B. G. 7, 1 fin.; so,
pristinam belli laudem,id. ib. 7, 76:
libertatem,id. ib. 5, 27; id. B. C. 3, 91:
vim suam,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 173; id. Att. 15, 13, 4:
voluntatem ejus,id. ib. 1, 11, 1; cf.
gratiam,Tac. A. 14, 5; Suet. Oth. 1:
pacem,Sall. J. 29, 3:
dignitatem,Quint. 11, 1, 79:
gloriam,Tac. H. 2, 24:
vires cibo somnoque,id. ib. 3, 22:
judicia (equites),id. A. 11, 22 fin.:
usum togae,to resume, Suet. Galb. 11.—
II Trop.
A To obtain again, regain, recover:
si et vos et me ipsum reciperaro,Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 3; cf.:
illum per te,id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4 fin.:
adulescentulos,to gain over again, regain, Nep. Ages. 6 fin.:
se quiete reciperare,to recruit, recover themselves, Varr. R. R. 1, 13;
so mid.: radices arborum reciperantur,Vitr. 2, 9.—
B To revive, restore (late Lat.):
crede Deo et reciperabit te,Vulg. Ecclus. 2, 6:
templum,id. 2 Macc. 2, 23.