revocare (post-Augustan, in this sense, Freund): dicta retractare (Virgil); recantare (Horace, of withdrawing poetical abuse; of wishing it, not unsaid, but unsung): ☞ palinodiam canere, very late, Macrobius; *quod dixi, indictum esse velle, fateri or profiteri (readily): sententiam mutasse (declare that one has changed one’s opinion).