• RECALL

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• To call back, revocare (by word or writing; PROP., or figuratively): aliquem clamitare, ut revertatur (to call out to anybody to return): aliquem reverti jubere (to command to return). To recall troops, signa receptui dare: to recall to life, aliquem in vitam revocare: anything to people’s memory, memoriam alicujus rei renovare or redintegrare: anything to anybody’s mind, alicui aliquid in memoriam redigere or reducere; aliquem in memoriam alicujus rei renovare or reducere; aliquem ad memoriam alicujus rei excitare: (to one’s own memory), memoriam alicujus rei repetere or renovare: to recall from banishment, revocare de or ab exsilio: reducere de exsilio; in patriam revocare: in patriam restituere (to restore to all one’s honors, property, etc.). To recall anybody from a post, revocare aliquem e munere; an ambassador, revocare aliquem e legatione; *legatum reverti jubere: to recall (a governor, viceroy, etc.), revocare ex provincia (Suet.). In Liv., 5, 15, quae cecinerit, ea se nec, ut indicta sint, revocare posse, it is, to recall his prophecy, so that it might be actually unsaid; but revocare probablythe best single word.
• To recant, retract, revoke, Vid.

2. revocatio; or by the verb: past recall, irrevocabilis: in perpetuum ratus (fixed forever): immutabilis (unchangeable). Anything is past recall, aliquid dixi or feci, ut indictum or infectum sit, revocare non possum or revocari non potest (after Liv., 5, 15).