I.perf. reposivi, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16; part. sync. repostus, a, um, on account of the metre, Lucr. 1, 35; 3, 346; Verg. G. 3, 527; id. A. 1, 26; 6, 59; 655; 11, 149; Hor. Epod. 9, 1; Sil. 7, 507 al.), v. a., to lay, place, put, or set back, i. e.,
I. With the idea of the re predominant.
A. To lay, place, put, or set a thing back in its former place; to replace, restore, etc. (class.; syn. remitto).
1. Lit.: “cum suo quemque loco lapidem reponeret,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 146: “quicque suo loco,” Col. 12, 3, 4: “humum,” the earth dug from a pit, Verg. G. 2, 231: “pecuniam in thesauris,” Liv. 29, 18, 15 Weissenb.; 31, 13; cf.: “ornamenta templorum in pristinis sedibus,” Val. Max. 5, 1, 6: “infans repositus in cunas,” Suet. Aug. 94: “ossa in suas sedes,” Cels. 8, 10, 1: “femur ne difficulter reponatur vel repositum excidat,” set again, id. 8, 20; 8, 10, 7: se in cubitum, to lean on the elbow again (at table), Hor. S. 2, 4, 39: “insigne regium, quod ille de suo capite abjecerat, reposuit,” Cic. Sest. 27, 58: “columnas,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147: “tantundem inaurati aeris,” Suet. Caes. 54: “togam,” to gather up again, Quint. 6, 3, 54; 11, 3, 149: “capillum,” id. 11, 3, 8, prooem. § 22:“ excussus curru ac rursus repositus,” Suet. Ner. 24: “nos in sceptra,” to reinstate, Verg. A. 1, 253; cf.: “reges per bella pulsos,” Sil. 10, 487: “aliquem solio,” Val. Fl. 6, 742: “veniet qui nos in lucem reponat dies,” Sen. Ep. 36, 10: “ut mihi des nummos sexcentos quos continuo tibi reponam hoc triduo aut quadriduo,” Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 38; Sen. Ben. 4, 32 fin.: “quosdam nihil reposuisse,” Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6: “donata,” Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 39: “flammis ambesa reponunt Robora navigiis,” to replace, restore, Verg. A. 5, 752: “aris ignem,” id. ib. 3, 231: “molem,” Sil. 1, 558: “ruptos vetustate pontes,” Tac. A. 1, 63: “fora templaque,” id. H. 3, 34: “amissa urbi,” id. A. 16, 13: “statuas a plebe disjectas,” Suet. Caes. 65: “cenam,” Mart. 2, 37, 10; “so esp. freq. in Vergil, of the serving up of a second course, as of a renewed banquet: sublata pocula,” Verg. A. 8, 175: “plena pocula,” id. G. 4, 378: “vina mensis (soon after, instaurare epulas),” id. A. 7, 134: “epulas,” id. G. 3, 527: “festas mensas,” Stat. Th. 2, 88: “cibi frigidi et repositi,” Quint. 2, 4, 29.—
2. Trop., to put or bring back; to replace, restore, renew: “ut, si quid titubaverint (testes), opportuna rursus interrogatione velut in gradum reponantur,” Quint. 5, 7, 11; cf.: “excidentes unius admonitione verbi in memoriam reponuntur,” id. 11, 2, 19: “nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, Curat reponi deterioribus,” Hor. C. 3, 5, 30.—
(β).
To represent or describe again, to repeat: “fabula quae posci vult et spectata reponi,” Hor. A. P. 190: “Achillem (after Homer),” id. ib. 120; cf.: “dicta paterna,” Pers. 6, 66.—
(γ).
To repay, requite, return: “cogitemus, alios non facere injuriam, sed reponere,” Sen. Ira, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 19: “semper ego auditor tantum? nunquamne reponam?” repay, Juv. 1, 1.—
(δ).
To put back, put to rest, quiet: “pontum et turbata litora,” Val. Fl. 1, 682; cf.: “post otiosam et repositam vitam,” Amm. 29, 1, 44.—
B. To bend backwards, lay back: (grues) mollia crura reponunt, bend back (in walking), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 Vahl.); “imitated by Virgil: pullus mollia crura reponit,” Verg. G. 3, 76: “cervicem reponunt et bracchium in latus jactant,” Quint. 4, 2, 39: “tereti cervice repostā,” Lucr. 1, 35: “interim quartus (digitus) oblique reponitur,” Quint. 11, 3, 99: “hic potissimum et vocem flectunt et cervicem reponunt,” id. 4, 2, 39: “membra (mortui) toro,” Verg. A. 6, 220: “membra stratis,” id. ib. 4, 392.—
C. To lay aside or away for preservation; to lay up, store up, keep, preserve, reserve (class.; cf.: regero, reservo).
1. Lit.: nec tempestive demetendi percipiendique fructūs neque condendi ac reponendi ulla pecudum scientia est, Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 156: “cibum,” Quint. 2, 4, 29: “formicae farris acervum tecto reponunt,” Verg. A. 4, 403: “Caecubum ad festas dapes,” Hor. Epod. 9, 1: “mella in vetustatem,” Col. 12, 11, 1; 12, 44, 7: “alimenta in hiemem,” Quint. 2, 16, 16: “(caseum) hiemi,” Verg. G. 3, 403: “omnia quae multo ante memor provisa repones,” id. ib. 1, 167: “thesaurum,” Quint. 2, 7, 4: “scripta in aliquod tempus,” id. 10, 4, 2.—Poet.: “eadem (gratia) sequitur tellure repostos, i. e. conditos,” buried, Verg. A. 6, 655; cf.: “an poteris siccis mea fata reponere ocellis? (= me mortuum),” Prop. 1, 17, 11: “tu pias laetis animas reponis Sedibus,” Hor. C. 1, 10, 17: “repono infelix lacrimas, et tristia carmina servo,” Stat. S. 5, 5, 47.—
2. Trop.: “opus est studio praecedente et acquisitā facultate et quasi repositā,” Quint. 8, prooem. § 29: “ aliquid scriptis,” id. 11, 2, 9: “manet altā mente repostum Judicium Paridis,” Verg. A. 1, 26: “reponere odium,” Tac. Agr. 39 fin.: “sensibus haec imis ... reponas,” Verg. E. 3, 54.—
D. To put in the place of, to substitute one thing for another (class.).
1. Lit.: “non puto te meas epistulas delere, ut reponas tuas,” Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 2: “Aristophanem pro Eupoli,” id. Att. 12, 6, 2; Quint. 11, 2, 49: “eorumque in vicem idonea reponenda,” Col. 4, 26, 2: “dira ne sedes vacet, monstrum repone majus,” Sen. Phoen. 122.—
2. Trop.: “at vero praeclarum diem illis reposuisti, Verria ut agerent,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21, § 52.—
E. To lay aside, to lay down, lay by, put away.
1. Lit.: “remum,” Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16: “arma omnia,” Caes. B. C. 2, 14: “caestus artemque,” Verg. A. 5, 484: “feretro reposto,” id. ib. 11, 149: “onus,” Cat. 31, 8: “telasque calathosque infectaque pensa,” Ov. M. 4, 10; Sil. 7, 507: “rursus sumptas figuras,” Ov. M. 12, 557: “bracchia,” to let down, Val. Fl. 4, 279.—Poet.: “jam falcem arbusta reponunt,” i. e. permit to be laid aside, Verg. G. 2, 416.—
II. With the idea of the verb predominant, to lay, place, put, set a thing anywhere (freq. and class.; syn. colloco).
A. Lit.: “grues in tergo praevolantium colla et capita reponunt,” Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125: “colla in plumis,” Ov. M. 10, 269: “litteras in gremio,” Liv. 26, 15: “hunc celso in ostro,” Val. Fl. 3, 339: “ligna super foco Large reponens,” Hor. C. 1, 9, 6: “(nidum) ante fores sacras reponit,” Ov. M. 15, 407.— With in and acc.: “uvas in vasa nova,” Col. 12, 16: “data sunt legatis, quae in aerarium reposuerant,” Val. Max. 4, 3, 9: “anulos in locellum,” id. 7, 8, 9; cf.: “mergum altius in terram,” Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 205.—
B. Trop., to place, put, set; to place, count, reckon among: “in vestrā mansuetudine atque humanitate causam totam repono,” Cic. Sull. 33, 92: “vos meam defensionem in aliquo artis loco reponetis,” id. de Or. 2, 48, 198: “suos hortatur, ut spem omnem in virtute reponant,” Caes. B. C. 2, 41: “in se omnem spem,” Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 36: “nihil spei in caritate civium,” Liv. 1, 49; 2, 39: “salutem ac libertatem in illorum armis dextrisque,” id. 27, 45: “verum honorem non in splendore titulorum, sed in judiciis hominum,” Plin. Pan. 84, 8; id. Ep. 1, 3, 3: “plus in duce quam in exercitu,” Tac. G. 30; Liv. 24, 37: “plus in deo quam in viribus reponentes,” Just. 24, 8, 2: “fiduciam in re reponere,” Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 16; 1, 8, 14: “ea facta, quae in obscuritate et silentio reponuntur,” id. ib. 1, 8, 6: “quos equidem in deorum immortalium coetu ac numero repono,” place, count, reckon among, Cic. Sest. 68, 143; so, “sidera in deorum numero,” id. N. D. 2, 21, 54; cf. id. ib. 3, 19, 47 Mos. N. cr.: “Catulum in clarissimorum hominum numero,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 90, § 210: aliquem in suis, Antonius ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1.— With in and acc.: “homines morte deletos in deos,” Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 38: “in deorum numerum reponemus,” id. ib. 3, 19, 47: “Isocratem hunc in numerum non repono,” id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17: “aliquid in fabularum numerum,” id. Inv. 1, 26, 39; and: “hanc partem in numerum,” id. ib. 1, 51, 97: “in ejus sinum rem publicam,” Suet. Aug. 94.—Hence, rĕpŏsĭ-tus (rĕpostus ), a, um, P. a.
I. Remote, distant (syn. remotus; “very rare): penitusque repostas Massylum gentes,” Verg. A. 6, 59: “terrae,” id. ib. 3, 364: “populi,” Sil. 3, 325 : “convalles,” App. M. 4, p. 145, 6.—
