REAP Copy link • REAPmetere (to mow): demetere (to mow down): desecare (to cut): colligere (to gather; PROP. and figuratively): percipere (PROP., to gather). ImPROP., fructum capere or percipere ex re: consequi (figuratively, to acquire, attain): to be reaping the fruits of anything, fructum alicujus rei ferre: to reap the fruits of one’s labors, fructum ex laboribus percipere: to reap praise, laudem et admirationem consequi; laudem ferre. As you have sowed, so you must reap, ut sementem feceris, ita et metes (Cic.): tute hoc intristi; tibi omne est exedendum (Terentianus, Phorm., 2, 2, 4).