Replico, léplicas, pen. cor. replicâre. Plaut.To vnfold: to dis. play: to fold againe: to fold backe.Replicare in rugas. Plin. To be folded up againe in wrinckles.Replicare surculos ad vitis caput. Cato. To bend backe bráches, &c.Replicata ceruix. Plin. Ones necke turned backe.Margine intus replicato. Plin. Cuius acumen in se replicatur. Sen. Replicare per translationem. Pl. To repeate: to rehearse often.Replicare memoriam aonalium vel remporum. Ci. To renolue olde and auncient hiltories to deciare things.Replicans répus. Ci. Rehearling of things of auntient time. Replicare. Plin. To returne the inside outward, as a snake doth his skin in casting it.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-plĭco, āvi (e. g. Vulg. Gen. 4, 27; id. Jos. 8, 35 al.), ātum (collat. form, replictae tunicae, Stat. S. 4, 9, 29), 1, v. a., to fold or roll back, to bend or turn back (cf.: revolvo, reflecto). I.Lit.: vel Euhemero replicato, vel Nicagorā, etc.,
unrolled
,
opened
, Arn. 4, 147; cf. infra, II.: surculos in terram dimittito replicatoque ad vitis caput,
bend back
, Cato, R. R. 41, 4; so, labra, Quint. 11, 3, 81; cf.: replicatā cervice, Plin. 34, 8, 19, 80; and: margine intus replicato, id. 9, 33, 52, 102: ab omni laevitate acies radios tuos replicat,
casts back
,
reflects
, Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 7; cf.: quia radii solis replicantur, id. ib. 2, 10, 3: jocinera replicata,
folded inwards
, Suet. Aug. 95.—II.Trop., to unfold, unroll, turn over; to bend or turn back; to open: ut ne replices annalium memoriam,
unfold
,
turn over
, Cic. Sull. 9, 27; so, memoriam temporum, id. Leg. 3, 14, 41: traductio temporis nihil novi efficientis et primum quicque replicantis,
unrolling
,
unwinding
, id. Div. 1, 56, 127: cujus acumen nimis tenue retunditur et in se saepe replicatur,
is bent back
, Sen. Ben. 1, 4, 1: vestigium suum, to withdraw, i. e. to go back, App. M. 4, p. 151, 15.— B. In partic. 1.To turn over and over in the mind, to think or reflect upon; to go over, repeat (post-class.): haec identidem mecum, App. M. 3, p. 129: titulos, singula, Prud. stef. 11, 3: necem,
to tell again
, Amm. 30, 1, 3: vitam, Sid. Ep. 7, 9: lamentum, Vulg. 2 Par. 35, 25; id. Num. 27, 23: quorum (glirium) magnitudo saepius replicata laudatur adsidue, Amm. 28, 4, 13: vultu adsimulato saepius replicando, quod, etc., id. 14, 11, 11. — 2. In jurid. and late Lat., to make a reply or replication, Dig. 2, 14, 35 fin.; Greg. Mag. in Job, 16 init.