The corpus record — Latin

reposco1

reposco1 · v. a

to demand back

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Where it lives

Phoenissae 2 · 4.89/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Argonautica 8 · 2.15/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k

Densest 12 of 59 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rĕ-posco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-posco, ĕre, v. a.,

I to demand back, to ask for again, as something belonging to one (class.); constr. aliquid; aliquid ab aliquo; more freq., aliquem aliquid, and absol.

I Lit.: dedisti eam dono mihi: Eandem nunc reposcis, Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 16: quoi talentum mutuom dedi, reposcam, id. Trin. 3, 2, 202: quae deposueris, Quint. 9, 2, 63: pecuniam, Tac. A. 1, 35: ignes commissos, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 53. fratrem clamore magno, Sil. 17, 460: ego ab hac puerum reposcam, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 76: virginem, id. Curc. 5, 2, 16: aulam auri te reposco, id. Aul. 4, 10, 33: eum vidulum, id. Rud. 5, 2, 65: eum simulacrum Cereris, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51, § 113: alter me Catilinam reposcebat, id. Red. in Sen. 4, 10: Parthos signa, Verg. A. 7, 606: (talenta) Thebani reposcunt Thessalos, Quint. 5, 10, 111: propensiores ad bene merendum quam ad reposcendum, Cic. Lael. 9, 32. —

II Trop., to ask for, claim, demand, exact, require, as something due: attentas aures animumque reposco, Lucr. 6, 920: quod natura reposcit, id. 2, 369: vitam (mea fata), Prop. 2, 1, 71: amissam meā virtutem voce, Ov. M. 13, 235: foedus flammis, Verg. A. 12, 573: responsa Ordine cuncta suo, id. ib. 11, 240: promissa, id. ib. 12, 2: pretium libelli, Plin. Ep. 7, 12, 5: gratiam, id. ib. 1, 13, 6: vicem, Mart. 8, 38, 3: natos poenas, Verg. A. 2, 139 Forbig. ad loc. (Heyne, ad poenas): ab altero rationem vitae, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1: rationem (rei) ab aliquo, id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 27; Caes. B. G. 5, 30; cf.: vos rationem reposcitis, quid Achaei Lacedaemoniis bello victis fecerimus? Liv. 39, 37: quid dicturos reposcentibus aut prospera aut adversa, who demanded an account of their successes or reverses, Tac. H. 3, 13 fin.: cave respuas, Ne poenas Nemesis reposcat a te, Cat. 50, 20.

2. rĕposco — Lewis & Short

rĕposco, ōnis, m.1. reposco,

I one who makes a demand, who urges a claim, a dun: acerrimi, Amm. 22, 16, 23.

In the wild

reposcat Martial, Epigrammata 8.38.3
reposcent Propertius, Elegiae 2.1.72
reposcenti Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 1.19.5
reposcit Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.120
reposcens Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.9.21.12
reposcere Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.6.1

6 of 122 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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