Recito, récitas, pen. cor. recitâre. Ex re & cito, citas, compositum. To reade alowde that other may heare: to recite: to recite by hearte, or tel without booke.Clarè recitare.Plaut.To recite a lowde with a shril voice.Recitare identidem. Ci. To repeate often.Edictum recitare.Cic.Carmen recitare.Ouid.Literas recitare. Ci. Scripta recitant in medio soro. Hor. Elogium recitasti de restamento Cn. Egnatij patris. Ci. Recita ex literis publicis. Ci. Recitatus hæres testamento.Cic.Openly read to be heire by his wil.Recitare Senatum, ant Senatorem. Ci.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-cĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I. In the best prose, a publicist's t. t., to read out, recite a document, statement, report, etc., in public proceedings: alicujus testimonium, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8, 23; cf.: testimonia tabulasve, Quint. 7, 10, 13: litteras in concione, Cic. Att. 8, 9, 2: litteras in senatu, id. Fam. 10, 12, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 1; Sall. C. 34, 3; cf. Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 1; 12, 25, 1; Caes. B. G. 7, 48: edictum, Cic. Quint. 29, 89; id. Verr. 2, 3, 10, 26: orationem, id. Planc. 30, 74: nolo cetera recitare, id. ib.: epistulam meam, id. Sull. 24, 67: quid ego nunc hic Chlori testimonium recitem?id. Verr. 2, 2, 8, 23: rogationem suam populo, Quint. 10, 5, 13: testamentum, id. 9, 2, 35: recitet ex codice, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 10, 26; so, responsum ex scripto, Liv. 23, 11: de tabulis publicis, Cic. Fl. 17, 40: auctionem populi Romani de legis scripto, id. Agr. 2, 18, 48: elogium de testamento, id. Clu. 48, 135.— Of persons: testamento si recitatus heres esset pupillus Cornelius, Cic. Caecin. 19, 54; so, heres, Plin. 7, 52, 53, 177: aliquem praeterire in recitando senatu,
in the list of senators
, Cic. Dom. 32, 84; so, senatum, Liv. 29, 37: aut recitatis in actione, aut nominatis testibus, by reading over the witnesses (i. e. their testimony) or by simply naming them, Quint. 5, 7, 25; v. Spald. ad h. l. — II. In gen., to read out, recite any thing in public (freq. since the Aug. per., after which it became customary to recite one's own works before audiences; cf.: pronuntio, declamo): To. At clare recitato. Do. Tace, dum perlego, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 30: postquam recitasti quod erat cerae creditum, id. ib. 4, 3, 59: in medio, qui Scripta foro recitent, sunt multi, Hor. S. 1, 4, 75; cf. id. ib. 1, 4, 23; id. Ep. 1, 19, 42; 2, 1, 223; Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 45; id. P. 3, 5, 39; Juv. 8, 126; 3, 9; Plin. Ep. 7, 17, 1; 1, 5, 4; 1, 13; 2, 10, 6 et saep. al.—With dat.: nec recitem cuiquam nisi amicis, Hor. S. 1, 4, 73: Quinctilio si quid recitares, id. A. P. 438: nec illi ... verba ultra suppeditavere quam ut sacramentum recitaret, Tac. H. 4, 59.—B.To repeat from memory, say by heart, recite: quin etiam recitare, si qua meminerunt, cogendi sunt (phrenetici), Cels. 3, 18, 39; Mart. 9, 83, 4. — C. Of prayers, to say, offer (eccl. Lat.): orationes, Vulg. Tob. 3, 25.