Redux, reducis, pen. cor. om. ge. Ci. That is returned againe safe from erile or daunger.Tu sola reducem me in patriam faeis. Ter. Thou only makest me returne againe into my countrey.Carina redux.Ouid.A ship returned from hir voyage. Reduces. Plin. They that bring home againe.Reduces choræ. Mart. Great companies bringing home any great personage.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕdux (rēdux, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4; id. Capt. 5, 1, 2), dŭcis (abl. reduce, Liv. 21, 50: reduci, Ov. H. 6, 1), adj. [reduco]. I.Act., that leads or brings back (mostly as an epithet of Jupiter and of Fortuna, in the poets and in inscrr.): et sua det reduci vir meus arma Jovi, Ov. H. 13, 50; Sabin. Ep. 1, 78; Inscr. Orell. 1256: hic ubi Fortunae reducis fulgentia late Templa nitent, Mart. 8, 65, 1; Inscr. Orell. 332; 922; 1760 sq.; 1776; 3096; 4083: reduces choreae, i. e.
that accompany home
, Mart. 10, 70, 9.— Of a human being only in the foll. passage: eo pervenimus, unde, nisi te reduce, nulli ad penates suos iter est, Curt. 9, 6, 9.— II.Pass., that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned (freq. and class.): facere aliquem reducem,
to bring back
, Plaut. Capt. prol. 43; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 77; 3, 5, 28; 5, 1, 2; 11; id. Trin. 4, 1, 4; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 18: ab Orco in lucem, id. Hec. 5, 4, 12: quid me reducem esse voluistis? (i. e. from exile), Cic. Mil. 37, 103: victores triumphantes domos reduces sistatis, Liv. 29, 27; cf.: reduces in patriam ad parentes ad conjuges ac liberos facere, id. 22, 60, 13: navi reduce, id. 21, 50: caesar exercitusque, Tac. A. 1, 70 fin.: reduces socios, Verg. A. 1, 390; 11, 797: gratari aliquem reducem, id. ib. 5, 40 et saep.: (elephanti) non ante reduces ad agmen, Plin. 8, 5, 5, 13: carina, Ov. H. 6, 1: reduces habenas, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 242; of the phœnix after being burned: reducisque parans exordia formae, id. Idyll. 1, 41.