I.turned back or backwards, back, backwards (opp. prorsus): rursus retro, Non.
I. Lit. (only ante-class.): rursus prorsus reciprocat fluctus feram, Enn. ap. Non. 164, 11, and 384 fin. (Trag. v. 143 Vahl.); cf.: “trepidari sentio et cursari rursum prorsum,” Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 35: mortales multi rursus ac prorsus meant, Varr. ap. Non. 384, 32: “cum ex alto puteo sursum ad summum escenderis, Maximum periculum inde esse, a summo ne rursum cadas?” Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 15: “ego cunas recessim rursum vorsum trahere et ducere,” id. Am. 5, 1, 60; cf. id. Ep. 2, 2, 63.—
II. Transf.
A. To indicate the reverse of something, on the contrary, on the other hand, in return, again (freq. in all periods and kinds of composition; syn.: retro, contra, in vicem): in hominum aetate multa eveniunt hujusmodi: Capiunt voluptates: capiunt rursum miserias; “Irae interveniunt, redeunt rursum in gratiam, etc.,” Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 58 sq.: “bellum, pax rursum,” Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 16; Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 15: “quicquid dicunt, laudo: id rursum si negant laudo id quoque,” Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 20: Mi. Salutat. Ag. Saluta hunc rursus Punice meis verbis, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 40: “accipe a me rursum rationem doli,” id. Mil. 3, 1, 178: “succurrit Pulfioni Varenus et laboranti subvenit... Huic (Vareno) rursus circumvento fert subsidium Pulfio,” Caes. B. G. 5, 44: “eos ipse rursus singulos exceptans,” id. ib. 7, 47 fin.; 51; id. B. C. 1, 45, 3: “clamore sublato excipit rursus ex vallo clamor,” id. B. G. 7, 88; Sall. J. 69, 1: “postquam luxu atque desidiā civitas corrupta est, rursus respublica magnitudine suā imperatorum vitia sustentabat,” id. C. 53, 5: primum Metellum esse rati, portas clausere; “deinde rursus Jugurtham arbitrati obvii procedunt,” id. J. 69, 1: “ut illae superiores (partes) in medium locum mundi gravitate ferantur, sic hae rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40: “cum totam terram contueri licebit ... tum et habitabiles regiones et rursum omni cultu propter vim frigoris vacantes,” id. ib. 1, 20, 45; id. Rep. 2, 4, 9: “quod (Gorgias) judicaret hoc oratoris esse maxime proprium, rem augere posse laudando vituperandoque rursus affligere,” id. Brut. 12, 47: “necesse erit cupere et optare ... rursus autem recte factis angi,” id. Lael. 16, 59; id. Tusc. 4, 31, 65: “neque rursum eam totam repudiaret,” id. de Or. 1, 24, 110; so, “neque rursum,” Quint. 1, 10, 2; 2, 4, 3; 10, 3, 10; “12, 5, 4: Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra. Rursus, quid virtus et quid sapientia possit, etc.,” Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 17: “aequum est, Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus,” id. S. 1, 3, 75; Curt. 9, 2, 9; Tac. Agr. 29; id. A. 1, 80: “his, rursus illis exitiabile,” id. H. 3, 22.—Hence sometimes with retro, contra, invicem: “concede, nihil esse bonum, nisi, etc.... Vide rursus retro,” Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 83: “hi rursus invicem anno post in armis sunt: illi domi remanent,” Caes. B. G. 4, 1: “in amicorum vitiis tam cernis acutum? etc. At tibi contra Evenit, inquirant vitia ut tua rursus et illi,” Hor. S. 1, 3, 28.—
B. Denoting return to a former action or its repetition, back again, again, anew (syn.: “iterum, denuo): em rursum nunc nugas agis,” Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 61: “quem (Peliam) Medea dicitur Fecisse rursus ex sene adulescentulum,” id. Ps. 3, 2, 82; cf.: “uti quidque in sua corpora rursum Dissolvat natura,” Lucr. 1, 215: “eadem gigni rursusque augescere dixi,” id. 5, 250: “obloquere rursum?” Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 88: “feri malam tu illi rursum,” id. Cas. 2, 6, 55: “te suam (causam) rogavit rursum ut ageres,” Ter. Phorm. 5, 5, 8: “quo loco, si tibi hoc sumis ... facis, ut rursus plebes in Aventinum sevocanda esse videatur,” Cic. Mur. 7, 15: “Helvetii, qui in montem sese receperant, rursus instare et proelium redintegrare coeperunt,” Caes. B. G. 1, 25; cf.: bellum inferre, id. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, A: “confligere cum Bruti classe,” Caes. B. C. 2, 3 fin.; 4 fin.: “terga vertere,” id. ib. 1, 45: “rursus minuente aestu,” id. B. G. 3, 12; 5, 8; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 40 Müll.: rursus aliam in partem fugam petebant, Caes. B. G. 2, 24: “has (cohortes) subsidiariae ternae, et rursus aliae totidem, suae cujusque legionis, subsequebantur,” id. B. C. 1, 83; cf. id. ib. 2, 9; Sall. J. 103, 2. —In beginning a new strophe (= Gr. πάλιν): rursus, et hoc iterum repetamus carmen, Val. Cat. Dir. 14.—Pleon., with denuo, etc.: “Diphilus hanc Graece scripsit, post id rursum denuo Latine Plautus,” Plaut. Cas. prol. 34: “revortor rursus denuo Karthaginem,” id. Poen. prol. 79; Auct. B. Hisp. 35.—Freq. with words compounded with re; like reverti, regredi, se recipere, reducere, revocare, etc., v. h. vv.