To call backe: to renoke athyas that is done: to drawe backe: to vnsay that one hath saide: to bandle againe: to speake againe of a thing: to repeate: is write againe: to dresse or handle againe. Largitiones retractare. Traianus ad Pli. To cease from brfbing and prodigall giuing. Pedamento retractare. Col. To take vp stakes and forkes out of the ground againe, that were set vnder the vine the yere before, to the intent to new dresse them and cast those away that be rotten. Retractare aliquid. Cic. To repeate and speake a thing againe. Vuloera cruda retractare. Ouid. To handle greene woundes often. Retractare actiones. Pli. iuo. To begin actions new againe. Dicta retractare, Virg. To vnsay that he hath spoken: to recant. Materiam eandem retractare. Quintil. To handle % same matter againe. Retractare librum. To peruse and ouerloke a booke againe. Desueta verba retractare. Ouid. Diligenter retractare. Ci. Sæpe mecÛ retractans ac recogitans, qum turpi consens deserta exoluerit disciplina ruris. Col. Reuoluing often in my mind, and considering with my selfe, &c.

To pull or draw back: to drawe to. Retrahere ad se argentum. Ter. Ab ictu seretrahere. Ouid. To withdraw himselfe from the stroke. Aliquem retrahere studio. Tere. To withdrawe one from studie. Retrahere aliquem Republica. Cic. Ex fuga retrahere. Plaut. Se retraxit, ne pyxidem traderet. Cic. Scipio Hannibalem in Africam retraxit. Cic. Scipio drewe backe Hanniball out of Italie into Afrike. Aliquem retrahere in conditionem ministrorum. Plin. iun. To pull backe to the state of a seruant. Quò fara trahunt, retrahuntue, sequamur. Virg. Retrahere se. Ca. To cease and leaue off from doing a thing.

I. To take hold of or handle again; to take in hand again, undertake anew, etc. (class.; esp. in the trop. sense).

A. Lit. (mostly poet.): arma, Liv. 2, 30: ferrum, Verg. A. 7, 694; 10, 396: gladios, Petr. poët. 89, 61: vulnera, to feel again, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; 4, 4, 41; cf.: manu sua vota (i. e. the image), id. M. 10, 288: pedamenta, to go over again, retouch, Col. 4, 26, 1: agrum, to look over again, examine again, id. 1, 4, 1: dextras in bella, Sil. 10, 257: noctem, id. 3, 216. — Poet.: Venerem, Lucr. 4, 1200.—

B. Trop., of mental action, to reconsider, examine again, revise, etc. (syn. recognosco): qui omnia, quae ad cultum deorum pertinerent, diligenter retractarent et tamquam relegerent, sunt dicti religiosi, Cic. N. D. 2, 28, 72; cf.: fata domus (with relegere), Ov. M. 4, 569: locus orationis a me retractandus, Cic. Mur. 26, 54: augemus dolorem retractando, id. Att. 8, 9, 3: desueta verba, Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 63: secum deae memorata, id. M. 7, 714: vota, id. ib. 10, 370: gaudium, Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 8: leges retractavit, revised, Suet. Aug. 34: leges (librum), sed retractatum, Plin. Ep. 8, 21, 6: carmina diligentius, Suet. Gram. 2: Ceae munera neniae, Hor. C. 2, 1, 38.— Impers. pass.: posterā die retractatur, the negotiation is renewed, Tac. G. 22 fin.—

II. To withdraw one's self from an act; to draw back, refuse, decline, be reluctant (class.).

(a). Absol.: veniet tempus et quidem celeriter et sive retractabis sive properabis, Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 76: Appius nunc vocari Icilium, nunc retractantem arripi jubet, Liv. 3, 49 Drak.; 3, 52; 37, 18; Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 19; Col. 2, 2, 26: aut quid jam, Turne, retractas, Verg. A. 12, 889.—

(b). With acc., to withdraw, retract any thing: nihil est quod dicta retractent Ignavi Aeneadae, Verg. A. 12, 11: largitiones factas ante aliquantum tempus retractari non oportet, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 111 (112).— Transf., to detract from, disparage, = detrecto: retractandi levandique ejus operis gratiā, Gell. 14, 3, 4. — Hence, rētractātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), revised, corrected: retractatius su/ntagma, Cic. Att. 16, 3, 1.

I. To draw back, withdraw; to call back (class.).

A. Lit.: me retrahis, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 8; aliquem, Cic. Sen. 23, 83; Liv. 30, 20; 21, 63 (in the last two passages with revocare); 10, 25: bos domitus et procurrentem (bovem) retrahit, et cunctantem producit, holds back, Col. 6, 2, 10: aliquem hinc, Lucceius ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 1: Hannibalem in Africam (Scipio), Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 56: aliquem in urbem, Caes. B. C. 1, 9: manum, Cic. Cael. 26, 63: pedem, Verg. A. 10, 307: quo fata trahunt retrahuntque, id. ib. 5, 709: castra intra penitus, Liv. 36, 17 Drak.: occulere aut retrahere aliquid (pecuniae), to keep back, withhold, id. 32, 38 fin.: se, Cic. Cael. 27, 64; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 58: se ab ictu, Ov. M. 3, 87: se a convivio, Cels. 1, 1, 5; Capitol. Anton. Phil. 14, 2.— Mid.: (corpuscula complexa) inter se retrahuntur, Lucr. 2, 155: in servitutem retrahi, Tac. A. 13, 26. —

2. In partic., to drag back, bring back a fugitive, Caes. B. G. 5, 7; Liv. 2, 12; 25, 7: ut retractus, non reversus, videretur, Cic. Phil. 6, 4, 10; Sall. C. 39, 5: ex fugā, 47, 4: fugientem, Just. 38, 9, 6; 38, 10, 13. — Hence, comically, of fugitive money, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 11; cf. also infra, B.—

B. Trop., to draw back, withdraw, remove, etc.: postquam poëta vetus poëtam non potest Retrahere ab studio, to withdraw, remove, Ter. Phorm. prol. 2: aliquem a re publicā, Cic. Sest. 15, 34: Thebas ab interitu, Nep. Epam. 8, 4: aliquem ex magnis detrimentis, Suet. Aug. 71: ex viginti trecentisque millibus ad centum quinquaginta retraxit, i. e. he reduced them to one hundred and fifty thousand, Suet. Caes. 41 Oud.: verba, to keep back, suppress, Sen. Ep. 3, 6; so, vires ingenii, id. ib. 79, 3: noctes, to shorten, Manil. 4, 253: stellae splendorem suum, Vulg. Joel, 2, 10: genus ejusmodi calliditatis et calumniae retrahetur in odium judicis, is drawn or converted into, results in, Cic. Part. 39, 137: imaginem nocturnae quietis ad spem haud dubiam retraxit, Tac. A. 16, 1.— With reference to the signif. A. 2: illa (verba), quae jam majoribus nostris ademit oblivio fugitiva, Varr. L. L. 5, 5 Müll. —

II. To draw again or anew; to bring forth or to light again, make known again (so perh. only in Tac.).

A. Lit.: Caesar Antistium Veterem absolutum adulterii increpitis judicibus ad dicendam majestatis causam retraxit, Tac. A. 3, 38: aliquem postero die ad eosdem cruciatus, id. ib. 15, 57: Treviros in arma, id. H. 4, 70 fin. —

B. Trop.: oblitterata aerarii monimenta, Tac. A. 13, 23: potiorem civitatis partem ad societatem Romanam, id. H. 4, 56 fin.— Hence, rĕtractus, a, um, P. a., drawn back, lying back, remote, distant: emporium in intimo sinu Corinthiaco, Liv. 36, 21: in trorsus sinus maris, id. 26, 42.—Comp.: retractior a mari murus, Liv. 34, 9: retractius paulo cubiculum, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 6: retracti introrsum oculi, deep-set, Sen. Contr. 1, 6.