[409] ‘Fetched from his breast,’ which is perhaps the explanation of ‘refert’ in such passages as 1. 94. Comp. the use of ‘reddere’ in such expressions as “sanguinem reddere.” The notion perhaps is that in such natural processes as the utterance of words, discharge of blood, &c., the thing is as it were given back, given by what ought not to retain it to what ought to receive it.
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