Recognosco, recognoscis, recognoui, pen. prod. recógnitum, pen. cor. recognóscere. Cic.To recognise: to consider: to recount: to call to remembrannce: to ouerlooke: to ouersee a thing to correct it, or to see in what case it is. To reckon: to number,Aliquem penitus recognoscere. Cice. To consider earnestly what a man one is.Amorem alicuius erga se in literis recognoscere. Cassius Ciceroni. In ones letters to vnderstand and perceiue his loue towarde him.Dona recognoscit populorum.Virg.He ouerlooketh agayne the giftes of the people what they were.Qualis fuerit, ex eo quem sui simillimum produxit, recognoscere potestis. Cice. You may consider and call to rememb; aunce what maner of man he was, &c.Reminiscendo recognoscere.Cic.Recognosce mecum tandem illam superiorem noctem. Ci. Consider, or call to thy remembraunce with me what was done that other night before.Facta mecum sua recognoscit.Cic.Quum multis ciuibus Romanis recognoscerentur. Cice. When they were knowne and remembred of, &c. Recognoscere.Cic.To ouersee and correct.Omnia summa cura & diligentia recoguita & collata.Cic.Codicem recognoscendi causa legit. Ci. He readeth the boke to the end to correct it. Decretum recognoscere.Cicer.To ouersee a decree to the ende to amende it. Vestem, manicas, pedumqúe tegmina recognoseat. Colu. Let him ouerloke and take a reckning of his apparel, &c.Recognoscere causam.Cic.To consider againe earnestly the cause. Recognoscere equitum turmas. Sue. To muster the horsemen to see what number they be. Recognoscere. Curt. To make an inuentorie of things: to take a viewe of things.Recognitio. ônis, f. g. Verbale. Pli. A knowledging: a considering: a calling to remembraunce: the taking of a viewe.Recognitio eorum quæ in familia sunt. Colu. The taking a viewe of shose things that are in the house.Recognitio scelerum suorum. Cice. The calling to remembraunce of their owne naughtie artes.
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rĕ-cognosco, gnōvi, gnĭtum, 3, v. a.I.To know again, recollect, recall to mind, recognize, i. q. recordor (class.; esp. freq. in Cic.): se non tum illa discere, sed reminiscendo recognoscere, Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57 (just before, recordari); cf. id. Verr. 2, 1, 12, 32: fugam et furtum, id. ib. 2, 2, 6, 18: ea, quae scit, mecum recognoscere, id. ib. 1, 5, 15; cf. id. Cat. 1, 3, 6: noctem illam superiorem mecum recognosce, id. ib. 1, 4, 8; Liv. 44, 38: cum te penitus recognovi, timere desino, Cic. Deiot. 2, 4; cf.: personas quasdam, id. Mil. 6, 6: in quibus (litteris) mirificum tuum erga me amorem recognovi, Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 1; so, res (suas), Liv. 5, 16: spatia certaminum, Tac. H. 2, 70: dona templorum, id. Agr. 6: cuncta loca, Ov. M. 11, 62: sacra eruta annalibus, id. F. 1, 7; cf.: ille se imperatorem cognosceret,
feel himself
, Capitol. Gord. 30. — II.To look over, review, investigate, examine, inspect, i. q. recenseo (so most freq. since the Aug. per.): quoniam non recognoscimus nunc leges populi Romani sed aut repetimus ereptas aut novas scribimus, Cic. Leg. 3, 16, 37: socios navales, Liv. 42, 31; cf. Front. Strat. 4, 6, 3: peregrinos, Just. 43, 4, 11: equitum turmas, Suet. Aug. 37; 38; id. Tib. 61; Just. 43, 4, 11: agros, Liv. 42, 8, 9: ergastula, Suet. Aug. 32: supellectilem Darei et omnem pecuniam, Curt. 5, 1, 23: mancipia ergastuli, Col. 1, 8, 16: instrumentum rusticum, id. 11, 1, 20: numerum (gregis, militum), id. 8, 11, 2; Just. 3, 1, 7: praedam, id. 11, 14, 8: sigillum, App. M. 10, p. 243, 8.— Poet.: (Caesar triumphans) Dona recognoscit populorum, surveys, Verg. A. 8, 721. —B. In partic., to examine a writing in respect to its genuineness and value; to certify, authenticate: tabulas in foro summā hominum frequentiā exscribo ... Haec omnia summā curā et diligentiā recognita et collata et ab hominibus honestissimis obsignata sunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, 190; cf.: decretum Pompeii, id. Balb. 5, 11: codicem, id. Vatin. 2, 5: descriptum et recognitum, Dig. 10, 2, 5; Inscr. Grut. 214; 573: libellos recognoscere et emendare,