Behinde. Retro ad Alpes versus iter mihi incidit. Cæl. Cice. Retro & tergo. Cic. Vocare retro aliquem. Vir. To call one backe and make him returne. Tam longè retro respicere non possunt. Cice. They can not looke so farre backe. Abduxere retro longè capita ardua ab ictu. Virg. Abscedere retro. Sl. Retro ambulare. Plin. To walke backe againe. Retro cedere, siue vnica dictione, vt alijs placet, Retrocedere. Liu. To recule: to retire: to giue or go backe. Retro commcare. Ci. To returne backe to the place whence he came. Discedere retro. Lucre. Retro fluere amnes nostra vidit ætas. Plin. To flowe backe. Properare retro. Ouid. Referri retro. Virg. Ruere retro. Star. Retro, pro Ante. Iulius Capitolinus. Stipendia plurimis retro debira exoluit. He payed wages to very manye to whome it was due before or in time paste. Retro, pro E contrario. Africanus. Eontrariwise: on the contrarie parte. Retròago agis, pen. cor. ègi, pen. pro. actum, ágere: vt Retroagere aliquem, Plini. To driue one backe. Capillos retroagere. Qumt. To cast his haire backewarde. Ordinem retroagere. Quint. To beginne at the last and go backe. Id est, præposterè incipere. Bud. Expositionem retroagere. Quint.

I. Lit., of place, backwards, back; on the back side, behind.

a. Denoting tendency, direction, with verbs or nouns of motion: multa videbis retro repulsa revorti, Lucr. 2, 130; so very often with redire, regredi, repetere, remittere, respicere, reverti, revocare, etc., v. h. vv., and cf. Drak. ad Liv. 22, 6, 7, and 27, 28, 6: vestigia retro sequor, Verg. A. 2, 753; 9, 392; 11, 405: dare lintea retro, id. ib. 3, 686: ora retro Flectit, Ov. M. 15, 685: retro inhibitā nave, Liv. 30, 10 et saep.: iter mihi retro ad Alpes versus incidit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2; cf.: fugam retro spectante milite, Liv. 8, 19: fugit retro, Hor. C. 2, 11, 5: ne currente retro funis eat rotā, id. ib. 3, 10, 10: meretrix retro Perjura cedit, id. ib. 1, 35, 25: retro properare, Ov. H. 5, 31: unde ad hunc orbem redii, unde retro nemo, Sen. Herc. Oet. 48.—

b. Denoting rest (rare): est mihi in ultimis conclave aedibus quoddam retro, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 29: quid retro atque a tergo fieret, ne laboraret, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49: perculsis nullum retro subsidium foret, Tac. H. 2, 26: retro Marsigni, etc., id. G. 43: MEMORIAM SE VIVA FECIT SIBI ... CVM AEDICVLIS ANTE ET A RETRO, Inscr. Orell. 4512.—

II. Trop.

A. Of time, back; in time back, in past times, before, formerly: et deinceps retro usque ad Romulum, Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58; cf.: SVPER OMNES RETRO PRINCIPES FORTISSIMO IMP. CAES., etc., Inscr. Orell. 1049; and so, OMNES RETRO PRINCIPES, ib. 1098: quodcumque retro est, is past, Hor. C. 3, 29, 46: praemissa retro nobilitas, Stat. S. 1, 4, 68; Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 118 (120): cujus vim si retro quoque velimus custodire (opp. in futurum), id. ib. 10, 115 (116) fin.: meliorum retro principum ( = superiorum), Lampr. Alex. Sev. 34: cum id ab aliis retro factum recordarer, Tert. Uxor. 2, 2: Hebraei retro, qui nunc Judaei, id. Apol. 18.—

B. In other relations, back, behind, in return, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa: ab imā (voce) ad summam ac retro multi sunt gradus, Quint. 11, 3, 15: ut omnia, quae sine eā (honestate) sint, longe retro ponenda censeat, Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 87: rursum versus retroque, id. Part. 7, 24; cf.: vide rursus retro, id. Fin. 5, 28, 83: sic omnia fatis In pejus ruere, ac retro sublapsa referri, i. e. against one's efforts or wish, Verg. G. 1, 200; cf.: retro vivere, Sen. Ep. 122 fin.: si malum perfidia, non est fallendum. Idem retro, Quint. 5, 10, 74: fructus hominis in operis consistit et retro in fructu hominis operae sunt, Dig. 7, 7, 4; cf. ib. 46, 1, 21; 46, 3, 67 et saep.?*! The words containing retro in composition (except retroversus and retrorsus) are post-Aug.; they are sometimes written separately.