recruit (v.) Copy link Outline I. To refresh1. rĕfĭcio, fēci, fectum, 32. rĕvŏco, 1II. Milit. t. t.1. suppleo, ēvi, ētum, 2 (to furnish a complement)2. expleo, ēvi, ētum, 23. rĕfĭcio, fēci. fectum, 3 • recruit (v.): I. To refresh: 1. rĕfĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3: to r. one's strength, r. vires, Cic. Sen. 11, 36: to r. oneself, r. se, id. Fam. 7, 26, extr. (q. v.): v. refresh. 2. rĕvŏco, 1: to r. one's strength and flesh, vires et corpus r., id. ib. II. Milit. t. t.: 1. suppleo, ēvi, ētum, 2 (to furnish a complement): legions r.'d from the army of Brutus, legiones ex Bruti exercitu suppletae, M. Anton. in Cic. Phil. 8, 9, 27: to r. the army by levies, s. exercitum delectibus, Tac. A. 4, 4. 2. expleo, ēvi, ētum, 2: to r. the legions, legiones e., Liv. 1, 30: the army was r.'d with difficulty on account of the plague, exercitus aegre explebatur propter pestilentiam, id. 40, 36, ad fin.: v. fill up. 3. rĕfĭcio, fēci. fectum, 3: to r. the legions from the levies, r. legiones ex delectibus, Caes. B. C. 3, 87: Liv. Phr.: to r. his diminished forces, copias deminutas redintegrare, Caes. B. G. 7, 31: v. foll. art.