redeem Copy link Outline I. To ransom, get back1. rĕdĭmo, ēmi, emptum, 32. rĕdempto, 13. lībĕro, 14. rĕpignĕro, 1 (to r. a pledge)II. To make amends for • redeem: I. To ransom, get back: 1. rĕdĭmo, ēmi, emptum, 3: to r. captives from brigands, r. captos a praedonibus, Cic. Off. 2, 16, 56: to r. captives from slavery, r. captos e servitute, id. ib. 2, 18, 63: to r. the state by gold, auro r. civitatem, Liv. 9, 4, extr.: they wished to r. him from death with their own blood, eum suo sanguine ab Acheronte cuperent r., Nep. Dion. 10, 2. ye have been r.'d by the blood of Christ, redempti estis sanguine Christi, Vulg. 2 Pet. i. 18: v. ransom. 2. rĕdempto, 1: Tac. H. 3, 34. 3. lībĕro, 1: v. SET FREE: to r. the land tax, perh. *vectigali agros liberare, after Cic. Agr. 1, 4, 10. 4. rĕpignĕro, 1 (to r. a pledge): Ulp. Dig. 13, 6, 5, § 12. II. To make amends for: rĕdĭmo, ēmi, emptum, 3: to r. many charges of sloth by his death, multa desidiae crimina morte r., Vell. 2, 87, 1: Sall.: Ov.: v. atone for, repair.