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-posco , ĕre, v. a.,
I.to demand back, to ask for again, as something belonging to one (class.); constr. aliquid; aliquid ab aliquo; more freq., aliquem aliquid, and absol.
II. Trop., to ask for, claim, demand, exact, require, as something due: “attentas aures animumque reposco,Lucr. 6, 920: “quod natura reposcit,id. 2, 369: “vitam (mea fata),Prop. 2, 1, 71: “amissam meā virtutem voce,Ov. M. 13, 235: “foedus flammis,Verg. A. 12, 573: “responsa Ordine cuncta suo,id. ib. 11, 240: “promissa,id. ib. 12, 2: “pretium libelli,Plin. Ep. 7, 12, 5: “gratiam,id. ib. 1, 13, 6: “vicem,Mart. 8, 38, 3: “natos poenas,Verg. A. 2, 139 Forbig. ad loc. (Heyne, ad poenas): “ab altero rationem vitae,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1: rationem (rei) ab aliquo, id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 27; Caes. B. G. 5, 30; cf.: “vos rationem reposcitis, quid Achaei Lacedaemoniis bello victis fecerimus?Liv. 39, 37: “quid dicturos reposcentibus aut prospera aut adversa,who demanded an account of their successes or reverses, Tac. H. 3, 13 fin.: “cave respuas, Ne poenas Nemesis reposcat a te,Cat. 50, 20.
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 37
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 9
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