rĕcī^prŏco — Lewis & Short
rĕcī^prŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.reciprocus.
I Act., to move backwards or back and forth (rare but class.; cf.: meo, remeo).
A Lit.: rursus prorsus reciprocat fluctus feram, bears to and fro, Enn. ap. Non. 165, 11, and 384 fin. (Trag. v. 143 Vahl.):
refluusque reciprocat aestus,Sil. 15, 225:
(ventus) cum jam spiritum includeret nec reciprocare animam sineret,to breathe, fetch their breath, Liv. 21, 58, 4:
spiritum per fistulam,Gell. 17, 11, 4:
aurae per anhelitum reciprocatae,Arn. 2, 54:
manu telum reciprocans,brandishing, Gell. 9, 11, 5:
quid Chalcidico Euripo in motu identidem reciprocando putas fieri posse constantius?Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24; cf.
under II.: serram,to draw back and forth, Tert. Cor. Mil. 3: circulos, Prud. stef. 10, 573:
quinqueremem in adversum aestum reciprocari non posse,would not be able to tack about, Liv. 28, 30; cf.:
quoniam aestus semper e Ponto profluens nunquam reciprocetur,flow back, Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 93:
reciprocari mare coepit,Curt. 9, 9, 20.— *
B Trop., to reverse, convert a proposition:
si quidem ista sic reciprocantur, ut et, si divinatio sit, dii sint, et si dii sint, sit divinatio,Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10.—
II Neutr., to move backwards, go back; to move back and forth, to come and go, reciprocate (perh. only since the Aug. per.):
fretum ipsum Euripi non septies die temporibus statis reciprocat,rises and falls, Liv. 28, 6;
so of the ebb and flow: Euripus,Plin. 2, 97, 100, § 219:
mare,Curt. 9, 9, 20:
aquae,Flor. 2, 8, 9;
and of the ebb (opp. accedere),Plin. 2, 97, 89, § 212.—
Of stars: saepe citra eos ad solem reciprocent,Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 72:
nubem eos arcentem a reciprocando,from going back, id. 9, 46, 70, § 151.?*! Reciprocare pro ultro citroque poscere usi sunt antiqui, quia procare est poscere, Fest. p. 229 Müll.