1. rĕdux — Lewis & Short
rĕdux (rēdux,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4; id. Capt. 5, 1, 2), dŭcis (abl. reduce, Liv. 21, 50:I
reduci,Ov. H. 6, 1), adj. reduco.
I Act., that leads or brings back (mostly as an epithet of Jupiter and of Fortuna, in the poets and in inscrr.):
et sua det reduci vir meus arma Jovi,Ov. H. 13, 50; Sabin. Ep. 1, 78; Inscr. Orell. 1256:
hic ubi Fortunae reducis fulgentia late Templa nitent,Mart. 8, 65, 1; Inscr. Orell. 332; 922; 1760 sq.; 1776; 3096;
4083: reduces choreae,i. e. that accompany home, Mart. 10, 70, 9.—
Of a human being only in the foll. passage: eo pervenimus, unde, nisi te reduce, nulli ad penates suos iter est,Curt. 9, 6, 9.—
II Pass., that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned (freq. and class.):
facere aliquem reducem,to bring back, Plaut. Capt. prol. 43; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 77; 3, 5, 28; 5, 1, 2; 11; id. Trin. 4, 1, 4; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 18:
ab Orco in lucem,id. Hec. 5, 4, 12: quid me reducem esse voluistis? (i. e. from exile), Cic. Mil. 37, 103:
victores triumphantes domos reduces sistatis,Liv. 29, 27; cf.:
reduces in patriam ad parentes ad conjuges ac liberos facere,id. 22, 60, 13:
navi reduce,id. 21, 50:
caesar exercitusque,Tac. A. 1, 70 fin.:
reduces socios,Verg. A. 1, 390; 11, 797:
gratari aliquem reducem,id. ib. 5, 40 et saep.:
(elephanti) non ante reduces ad agmen,Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 13:
carina,Ov. H. 6, 1:
reduces habenas,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 242;
of the phœnix after being burned: reducisque parans exordia formae,id. Idyll. 1, 41.