I.to get, acquire, or procure again; to recover, retrieve; to restore, repair, renew (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; not in Cæs.; cf.: recupero, redimo, reficio).
I. Lit.: “id perdere videbatur, quod alio praetore eodem ex agro reparare posset,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 86, § 199; cf.: “reparare quod amiseris gravius est,” Plin. Ep. 6, 8, 6: “id quod amittitur non parvo sumptu reparatur,” Col. 7, 3, 10: “classes,” Suet. Aug. 16; Auct. B. Alex. 72; Lucr. 1, 1037: “amissas res,” Hor. S. 2, 5, 2: “bibliothecas incendio absumptas,” Suet. Dom. 20: Academiae villam, Laurea Tullius ap. Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 8: “tecta Trojae,” Hor. C. 3, 3, 60: “sublapsa aedificia,” Plin. Ep. 10, 70 (75), 1 (Keil, relaxentur): “exercitum,” Liv. 30, 7: “majores copias,” Curt. 4, 9, 11: “auxilia,” Tac. A. 3, 73: “capillos, si effluxerint,” Plin. 27, 13, 111, § 138: “aegerrime ignem dimissum,” Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 11: “aliud ex aliis,” Lucr. 3, 965: “ex aliis alias figuras,” Ov. M. 15, 253: “nova cornua (luna),” id. ib. 1, 11: “populos artibus,” id. ib. 1, 363.—
B. In partic., in mercant. lang., to procure by exchange; to purchase, obtain with something: “vina Syrā reparata merce,” Hor. C. 1, 31, 12: “alios boves his nummis,” Dig. 15, 3, 16: “merces,” ib. 45, 1, 122.—
II. Trop.
A. To renew, restore, repair, etc.: “tribuniciam potestatem, rem intermissam, reparare,” Liv. 3, 37; cf.: “intermissam historias scribendi industriam,” Quint. 10, 1, 75: “bellum,” Liv. 4, 45 Drak.; 24, 42 (with instaurare); 30, 7; Just. 3, 6, 1; 22, 3, 9; 24, 1, 7: “proelium,” id. 3, 6, 7: “pristinam fortunam,” Curt. 5, 1, 8.—
B. Of loss or damage, to make good, restore, repair (poet. and post-Aug.): “damna,” Hor. C. 4, 7, 13; Just. 14, 3, 6; Sen. Phaedr. 476; Lact. Epit. 71, 8. —
C. Like reficere, recreare, to refresh, restore, revive, recruit: “tam assiduus in tribunali, ut labore refici ac reparari videretur,” Plin. Pan. 77, 5: “attrita cottidiano actu forensi ingenia optime rerum talium blanditiā reparantur,” Quint. 10, 1, 27: “animos,” Liv. 44, 38: “haec (quies) reparat vires, fessaque membra novat,” Ov. H. 4, 90: “magnas novi exercitūs vires,” Vell. 2, 37, 1: “respublica per Augustum reparata,” Vop. C. 3: “ea fessa Membra reparat labori,” Ov. M. 4, 216: “corpora fessa reparas labori,” id. ib. 11, 625: “pars magna terrarum (Aegypti) mergi repararique amne consueta,” Plin. Pan. 30, 3: “nec (Cleopatra) latentes Classe citā reparavit oras ( = alias sibi parare studuit regiones),” Hor. C. 1, 37, 24; “v. Orell. ad h. l.: PATRIOS PENATES ( = repetere),” Inscr. Orell. 1587: “rapidos meatus,” Aus. Mos. 35.
