Redimo, redimis, pen. cor. redémi. pen pro. redemprum, redimere. Ex re & emo, dinterposita, enphoiæ causa, composttum. Cic.To redeeme: to some: to buy: to recouer: to recompeuce: to take a thing in bargaine: to vndertake a thing a greate: to byre.Faullo redimere. Vide PAVLVLVM. Domum redimere.Cic.To buie an house.Redimere sibi amicos, Cic.To procure himselfe friends by gifts.Omoium gratiam eius morte redimere posset. Cæsa. With killing him he might purrbase all mens fauours.Pacem redimare. Cæsar. To purchase peace by giftes or intreatie.Pacem sibi redimere e aliqua. Cic. ldem. Voltates militá largitione redimere. Cæs. To procure, &c.Redimere pretio sepeliendi porestatem, Cic.With money to procure licence to butie.Auro redimere ius seplchri. Ouid. te redimas capeum qum queas Minimo. Ter. Raunsome or deliuer thy selfe beeing taken in loue snares, as good cheape as thou caust.Redimere captos, Cic.To raunsome.Redimere præteritam culpam.Cic.To recompence or make amendes for a faolt past.AcerbiratÊ Repub. suis priuatis incõmodis redimere Cic.Redimere pretio virgarum metum. Ci. With money to buy out the feare of scourging.Vt sua per nostram redimat periuria pœuam.Ouid. Redimere.Cic.To takea thing or worke a greate, or on a price.Conducere & redimere, proeodem. Vlp. To bire.Redimere vectigalia. Ci. To take to farme the common tributes vpon a rent.Redimere opus faciendum.Cic.To take a worke a greate or vpon a price.Redimendus particip, Ouid.
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rĕd-ĭmo, ēmi, emptum, 3, v. a. [emo]. I.To buy back, repurchase (freq. and class.; syn.: recupero, reparo). A. In gen.: eam (domum) non minoris, quam emit Antonius, redimet, Cic. Phil. 13, 5, 10: neque adeo hasce emi mihi — illi redemi rursum, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 145: aut emendum sibi quod non habebat, aut redimendum quod habebat, Cic. Sest. 30, 66: de fundo redimendo, id. Att. 11, 13, 4: orabo, ut mihi pallam reddat, quam dudum dedi, Aliam illi redimam meliorem,
will buy in return
, Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 115; 4, 3, 6; cf. Plin. 6, 28, 32, 162.— B. In partic., to buy back, ransom, release, redeem a prisoner, slave, etc.: Li. Tu redimes me, si me hostes interceperint? De. Redimam, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 93; Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 29: ut is homo redimatur illi, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 91; cf. id. Merc. 3, 1, 31: captos, captivos ab hoste, a praedonibus, etc., Cic. Off. 2, 16, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 34, 90; cf.: haec benignitas, redimi e servitute captos, id. Off. 2, 18, 63; Plaut. Pers. 4, 6, 14: servi in publicum redempti ac manumissi,
ransomed
,
liberated at public cost
, Liv. 26, 27: me raptum pugnā pretiove redemptum Mandere humo, Verg. A. 9, 213; Ov. H. 3, 39; id. Am. 1, 8, 63. — Hence, 2. In gen., to buy off from any thing; to set free, release, rescue: aliquem a piratis publicā civitatium pecuniā, Vell. 2, 42, 3: pecuniā se a judicibus, palam redemerat, Cic. Mil. 32, 87; cf.: se ab inquisitoribus pecuniā, Suet. Caes. 1: se a Gallis auro, Liv. 22, 59: se a cane, Petr. 72 fin.: se ab invidiā fortunae, Plin. 37, 1, 2, 3: aliquem suo sanguine ab Acheronte, Nep. Dion, 10, 2; cf.: fratrem Pollux alternā morte redemit, Verg. A. 6, 121: corpus (sc. a morbo), Ov. R. Am. 229: redimite armis civitatem, quam auro majores vestri redemerunt, Liv. 9, 4, 9; 15, 34, 5: so, redemit Dominus Jacob, Vulg. Jer. 31, 11; id. 1 Pet. 1, 18 et saep. — II.To buy up.A.Lit.1. In gen. (rare): statim redemi fundos omnes, qui patroni mei fuerant, Petr. 7: essedum sumptuose fabricatum, Suet. Claud. 16: libros suppressos, id. Gram. 8.—(b). Of persons, to hire, bribe: auditores conducti et redempti, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 4; so, plausor redemptus, Petr. 5, 8: tutor aut curator redemptus, Cod. Just. 5, 1, 4: aemuli corrupti ac redempti, ib. 10, 54.— More freq. and class., 2. In partic., a mercant. and jurid. t. t., to take or undertake by contract; to hire, farm, etc.: Dumnorigem portoria reliquaque omnia Aeduorum vectigalia parvo pretio redempta habere, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Varr. L. L. 6, 92 Müll.; cf.: picarias de censoribus, Cic. Brut. 22, 85: opus, id. Verr. 2, 1, 54, 141: istum eripiendum, id. ib. 2, 1, 11, 31: vestimenta texenda vel insulam, vel navem fabricandam, Dig. 7, 8, 12 fin.: litem,
to undertake
, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 35.— Esp., in law, t. t., to undertake the risk of a suit for a consideration (which was held dishonorable; opp. to the authorized stipulation of a fee): litem te redemisse contra bonos mores, Cod. Just. 2, 12, 15; cf. also: redimit eventum litium majoris pecuniae praemio contra bonos mores (procurator), Dig. 17, 1, 7: qui alios actionum suarum redimunt exactores, i. e.
who engage persons to undertake their suits in their own names
, Cod. Just. 2, 13, 2; so ib. 2, 13, 1; cf., respecting redimere litem, Mühlenbruch, Die Lehre von der Cession, p. 362 sq.—B.Trop., to buy, purchase.1.To gain, acquire, obtain, procure any thing desirable: ut ab eo (praetore) servorum sceleris conjurationisque damnatorum vita vel ipso carnifice internuncio redimeretur, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 6, 14: ego vitam omnium civium ... quinque hominum amentium ac perditorum poenā redemi, id. Sull. 11, 33: non vitam liberum sed mortis celeritatem pretio, id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, 119: sepeliendi potestatem pretio, id. ib.: pacem sibi sempiternam, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11, 34: pacem Ariovisti ne obsidibus quidem datis, Caes. B. G. 1, 37: pacem ab aliquo, Just. 43, 5, 9: omnium gratiam atque amicitiam ejus morte, Caes. B. G. 1, 44 fin.: militum voluntates largitione, id. B. C. 1, 39: primo tantummodo belli moram, Sall. J. 29, 3: neve auro redimat jus triste sepulcri, Ov. M. 13, 472: mutuam dissimulationem mali, Tac. Agr. 6: quidquid homines vel vitā aestimant vel morte redimunt, Curt. 5, 5, 18; 5, 9, 3.—2.To buy off, i. e. to ward off, obviate, avert an evil: quam (acerbitatem) ego a re publicā meis privatis et domesticis incommodis libentissime redemissem, Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 4: haec vero, quae vel vitā redimi recte possunt, aestimare pecuniā non queo, id. Verr. 2, 5, 9, 23: qui se uno quaestu decumarum omnia sua pericula redempturum esse dicebat, id. ib. 2, 3, 19, 49: metum virgarum pretio, id. ib. 2, 5, 44, 117: ignominiam assiduo labore, Front. Strat. 4, 1, 21: bellum ab Illyriis pactā mercede redimere, Just. 7, 5, 1; cf. bella, id. 6, 1, 6; 7, 5, 1; 7, 6, 5: si mea mors redimenda tuā esset, Ov. P. 3, 1, 105; cf.: nec te pugnantem tua forma redemit, id. M. 12, 393: qui delatorem redemit,
has bought off
,
hushed up
, Dig. 49, 14, 29.—3.To pay for; to make amends, atone, compensate for a wrong: flagitium aut facinus redimere, Sall. C. 14, 3: multa desidiae crimina morte, Vell. 2, 87 Ruhnk.: nullam congiario culpam, Plin. Pan. 28, 2; cf. simply culpam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8: vitium auctore (sc. Jove), Ov. H. 17, 49: sua perjuria per nostram poenam, id. Am. 3, 3, 21.—4. Of one's word or promise, to redeem, keep: verba sua, Sen. Ben. 4, 36, 1.