I.to take up again, take back, resume (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I. Lit. (terra) gentes omnis peperit et resumit denuo, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 64 Müll. (Epich. v. 4 Vahl. p. 168): “positas (tabellas) resumit,” Ov. M. 9, 524: “tela,” id. Am. 2, 9, 34: “librum perlectum utique ex integro,” Quint. 10, 1, 20: “librum in manus,” id. 10, 4, 3: “pugillares,” Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 16: “cito elapsum baculum,” Suet. Ner 24: “fuscinam,” id. Calig. 30: “arma,” id. ib. 48; Tac. H. 2, 44; 4, 76 fin.: “praetextas (opp. exuere),” Plin. Pan. 61, 8: “pennas,” Ov. M. 4, 664: “speciem caelestem,” id. ib. 15, 743.—
II. Trop.: instat anhelanti prohibetque resumere vires, to get or receive again, to recover, Ov. M. 9, 59; so, “vires,” id. ib. 9, 193; Just. 20, 5, 1; 24, 7, 1: “potentiam,” id. 6, 4, 1: “interruptum somnum,” Suet. Aug. 78: “animum,” id. Vit. 15: “animam,” Sen. Herc. Oet. 25; cf.: “resumpto spiritu recreatus est,” Vulg. Judith, 13, 30: “nomen gentile (opp. deponere),” Suet. Ner. 41: “sacramentum Vespasiani,” Tac. H. 4, 37: “militiam,” id. ib. 2, 67; cf. “pugnam,” to renew, id. ib. 2, 41: “hostilia,” id. A. 12, 15: “dominationem per arma,” id. H. 5, 8: “libertatem,” id. A. 3, 40; 14, 31; Plin. Pan. 66, 2: “curas,” id. ib. 79, 5: “nomen,” id. Ep. 5, 6, 12: “instituta cultumque patrium,” Tac. H. 4, 64: “voluptates (with repetere sollemnia),” id. A. 3, 6 et saep.: “aegrotantem,” to restore, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 1, 3; 18, 105; id. Tard. 3, 7, 91.
