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-sĕro , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. 3. sero,
I.to unlock, unclose, open (syn.: recludo, pando, aperio; class.; esp. freq. after the Aug. per.).
I. Lit.: “hi domos suas claudunt aut reserant,Plin. 10, 21, 24, § 49; so, “fores,Tib. 1, 2, 18; 1, 8, 60; Ov. M. 10, 384: “valvas,id. ib. 4, 761: “postes,Tib. 1, 2, 31: “limina,Verg. A. 7, 613: “januam,Ov. F. 2, 455: “carcerem,id. Am. 3, 2, 77; cf.: “portas hosti,id. A. A. 3, 577: “illi moenia,id. M. 8, 61: “claustra,Sil. 7, 334: “Italiam exteris gentibus,Cic. Phil. 7, 1, 2 (cf. also Italiam, Tac. H. 3, 2 fin. ex conj.): “urbem reserare et pandere portas,Verg. A. 12, 584: “infernas sedes (with recludere),id. ib. 8, 244: “aures,Liv. 40, 8 fin.: “pectus,Ov. M. 6, 663: latebras insidiarum, Amm. 14, 11, 9: “urbem,to take by storm, id. 15, 8, 19.—Poet.: “simulac species patefacta est verna diei Et reserata viget genetabilis aura Favoni,Lucr. 1, 11.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to open, lay open, unclose: nos ausi reserare . . . , Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 51, 171 (Ann. v. 226 Vahl.): “nec ita claudenda res est familiaris, ut eam benignitas aperire non possit, nec ita reseranda, ut pateat omnibus,Cic. Off. 2, 15, 55: “obsaepta diutinā servitute ora reseramus,Plin. Pan. 66 fin.: “ubi, Jane biceps, longum reseraveris annum,open, begin, Ov. P. 4, 4, 23; cf.: “aperire annum fastosque reserare (as consul),Plin. Pan. 58, 4: “emicuit reserata dies,Val. Fl. 1, 655.—
B. In partic., to disclose, reveal something unknown: “oracula mentis,Ov. M. 15, 145: “secreta,Val. Fl. 2, 438: “futura,Sil. 7, 436: “operta animi,Mamert. Grat. Act. ad Julian. 17: commissa, Petr. poët. Fragm. 28, 6.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
    • Cicero, Philippics, 7.1.2
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.384
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.145
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.761
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.663
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.61
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.584
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.613
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 3.2
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.11
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.49
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 40, 8
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.15
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 1.655
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2.438
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 4.4
    • Cicero, Orator, 51.171
    • Ovid, Fasti, 2
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