rĕdux Copy link Outline I. Act., that leads or brings backII. Pass., that is led or brought back , ... ⓘrĕdŭce: masc/fem/neut abl sg • rĕdux (rēdux, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4; id. Capt. 5, 1, 2), dŭcis (abl. reduce, Liv. 21, 50: reduci, Ov. H. 6, 1), adj. [reduco]. I. Act., that leads or brings back (mostly as an epithet of Jupiter and of Fortuna, in the poets and in inscrr.): et sua det reduci vir meus arma Jovi, Ov. H. 13, 50; Sabin. Ep. 1, 78; Inscr. Orell. 1256: hic ubi Fortunae reducis fulgentia late Templa nitent, Mart. 8, 65, 1; Inscr. Orell. 332; 922; 1760 sq.; 1776; 3096; 4083: reduces choreae, i. e. that accompany home, Mart. 10, 70, 9.— Of a human being only in the foll. passage: eo pervenimus, unde, nisi te reduce, nulli ad penates suos iter est, Curt. 9, 6, 9.— II. Pass., that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned (freq. and class.): facere aliquem reducem, to bring back, Plaut. Capt. prol. 43; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 77; 3, 5, 28; 5, 1, 2; 11; id. Trin. 4, 1, 4; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 18: ab Orco in lucem, id. Hec. 5, 4, 12: quid me reducem esse voluistis? (i. e. from exile), Cic. Mil. 37, 103: victores triumphantes domos reduces sistatis, Liv. 29, 27; cf.: reduces in patriam ad parentes ad conjuges ac liberos facere, id. 22, 60, 13: navi reduce, id. 21, 50: caesar exercitusque, Tac. A. 1, 70 fin.: reduces socios, Verg. A. 1, 390; 11, 797: gratari aliquem reducem, id. ib. 5, 40 et saep.: (elephanti) non ante reduces ad agmen, Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 13: carina, Ov. H. 6, 1: reduces habenas, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 242; of the phœnix after being burned: reducisque parans exordia formae, id. Idyll. 1, 41.
rĕ-dūco Copy link Outline I. To lead or bring back, to conduct back ...A. Lit.1. In gen.a. Of living objectsb. With inanimate objects, to draw back ...2. In partic.a. Reducere aliquem domum , ...b. In milit. lang., to draw off, withdraw ...c. To recall to the stage a playerB. Trop., to bring back, restore, replace ...II. After the Aug. period, sometimes with the idea of ducere predominating, for the usual redigere . * ...A. To bring or get out, to produce a certain quantityB. To bring, make, reduce to some shape, quality, condition, etc.A. Lit.B. Trop. ⓘrĕdūce: pres imperat act 2nd sg • rĕ-dūco, xi, ctum, 3 (rēduco or redduco, Lucr. 1, 228; 4, 992; 5, 133; old imp. redduce, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 29), v. a. I. To lead or bring back, to conduct back (very freq. and class.; syn. redigo). A. Lit. 1. In gen. a. Of living objects: reducam te ubi fuisti, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 106: hunc ex Alide huc reducimus, id. ib. 5, 4, 17; cf.: aliquem ex errore in viam, id. Ps. 2, 3, 2: aliquem de exsilio, Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 9; id. Att. 9, 14, 2; cf.: ab exsilio, Quint. 5, 11, 9: socios a morte, Verg. A. 4, 375: Silenium ad parentes, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 86; so, ad aliquem, Cic. Off. 3, 22, 86; Caes. B. G. 6, 32; id. B. C. 1, 24; 2, 38 fin.; cf.: a pastu vitulos ad tecta, Verg. G. 4, 434: reduci in carcerem, Cic. Att. 4, 6, 2: in Italiam, Caes. B. C. 3, 18: reducere uxorem, to take again to wife, marry again, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 31; 43; 3, 5, 51; 4, 4, 12 sq. al.; Nep. Dion, 6, 2; Suet. Dom. 3; 13; cf.: uxorem in matrimonium, id. ib. 8: regem, to restore to the throne, to reinstate, Cic. Rab. Post. 8, 19; id. Fam. 1, 2, 1; 1, 7, 4; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 3 (v. reductio): possum excitare multos reductos testes liberalitatis tuae, i. e. who have been brought back by your generosity, id. Rab. Post. 17, 47; cf.: cum in Italiam reductus existimabor, Pomp. ap. Caes. B. C. 3, 18, 4. — b. With inanimate objects, to draw back, bring back: (falces) tormentis introrsus reducebant, Caes. B. G. 7, 22: reliquas munitiones ab eā fossā pedes CCCC. reduxit, id. ib. 7, 22; cf. turres, id. ib. 7, 24 fin.: calculum, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 170, 30: in jaculando bracchia, Quint. 10, 3, 6: sinum dextrā usque ad lumbos, id. 11, 3, 131: ad pectora remos, Ov. M. 11, 461; Verg. A. 8, 689: clipeum, to draw back, Ov. M. 12, 132: gladium (opp. eduxit), Gell. 5, 9, 3: auras naribus, Lucr. 4, 990 al.: furcillas hibernatum in tecta, Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 6. —Poet.: solem reducit, Verg. A. 1, 143; so, diem (Aurora), id. G. 1, 249: lucem (Aurora), Ov. M. 3, 150: noctem die labente (Phoebus), Verg. A. 11, 914: aestatem, id. G. 3, 296: hiemes, Hor. C. 2, 10, 15: febrim, id. S. 2, 3, 294: somnum (cantus), id. C. 3, 1, 21 al.: umbram, to make the shadow move backwards, Vulg. 4 Reg. 20, 11.— 2. In partic. a. Reducere aliquem domum (opp. deducere), to conduct or accompany one home, Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 19: (P. Scipio) cum senatu dimisso domum reductus ad vesperum est a patribus conscriptis, Cic. Lael. 3, 12; cf. Liv. 4, 24; cf.: quos Elea domum reducit Palma, Hor. C. 4, 2, 17.—So, without domum: in ludum (puellulam) ducere et reducere, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 36: aliquem ad suam villam, Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 1: bene comitati per forum reducuntur, Quint. 12, 8, 3: quantā reduci Regulus solet turbā, Mart. 2, 74, 2: assurgi, deduci, reduci, Cic. Sen. 18, 63.— b. In milit. lang., to draw off, withdraw troops: vastatis omnibus eorum agris Caesar exercitum reduxit, Caes. B. G. 3, 29 fin.: legiones reduci jussit, id. B. C. 3, 46; so, exercitum (copias, legiones suas, etc.), id. B. G. 6, 29; 7, 68; id. B. C. 2, 28 fin.; Liv. 5, 5; Front. Strat. 2, 3, 1; 5; 2, 5, 13 sq.: suos incolumes, Caes. B. G. 5, 22; Front. Strat. 1, 1, 11; 5, 13: legiones ex Britanniā, Caes. B. G. 4, 38: a munitionibus, id. ib. 7, 88: ab oppugnatione, id. ib. 5, 26 fin.: in castra, id. ib. 1, 49 fin.; 1, 50; 2, 9; 4, 34 et saep.: in hiberna, id. ib. 6, 3: in Treviros, etc., id. ib. 5, 53; 7, 9 fin.; Liv. 43, 20: intra fossam, Caes. B. C. 1, 42; cf.: ab radicibus collis intra munitiones, id. B. G. 7, 51 fin. —Absol. (like duco and educo): instituit reducere, to march back, Front. Strat. 1, 4, 5 and 8.— c. To recall to the stage a player: a magno Pompeio magni theatri dedicatione anus pro miraculo deducta, Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 158.— B. Trop., to bring back, restore, replace: ad divitias, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 17: animum aegrotum ad misericordiam, Ter. And. 3, 3, 27: aliquem in gratiam, id. ib. 5, 4, 45; Cic. Clu. 36, 101: in gratiam cum aliquo, id. Rab. Post. 8, 19; Liv. 10, 5 fin.; Quint. 5, 11, 19; cf.: ut Caesarem et Pompeium perfidiā hominum distractos rursus in pristinam concordiam reducas, Balbus ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 1: aliquem ad officium sanitatemque, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 40, § 98: propinquum ad officium, Nep. Dat. 2, 3: judices ad justitiam, Quint. 6, 1, 46: legiones veterem ad morem, Tac. A. 11, 18: meque ipse reduco A contemplatu, withdraw myself, Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 65: verba paulum declinata ad veritatem, Quint. 1, 6, 32: judicatio est ad eum statum reducenda, id. 7, 3, 35: reducere in memoriam quibus rationibus unam quamque partem confirmāris, Cic. Inv. 1, 52, 98; cf.: in memoriam gravissimi luctūs, Plin. Ep. 3, 10, 2: dolorem in animum judicantium, Quint. 11, 1, 54: vocem in quendam sonum aequabilem, Auct. Her. 3, 12, 21: verborum facilitatem in altum, Quint. 10, 7, 28: haec benignā in sedem vice, Hor. Epod. 13, 7 sq.: tu spem reducis mentibus anxiis Viresque, id. C. 3, 21, 17: diem et convivia mente re duxit, has recalled to mind, Sil. 8, 136: vel instituere vel reducere ejusmodi exemplum, etc., to introduce again, restore, Plin. Ep. 4, 29, 3; so, habitum vestitumque pristinum, Suet. Aug. 40: morem transvectionis post longam intercapedinem, id. ib. 38. — To bring back, restore to the right path: scire est liberum Ingenium et animum, quo vis illos tu die Redducas, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44.— II. After the Aug. period, sometimes with the idea of ducere predominating, for the usual redigere (q. v. II.). * A. To bring or get out, to produce a certain quantity: LX. pondo panis e modio (milii) reducunt, Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 54.— B. To bring, make, reduce to some shape, quality, condition, etc. (rare; usually redigere): aliquid in formam, Ov. M. 15, 381: faecem in summum, to bring up, raise, Col. 12, 19, 4: excrescentes carnes in ulceribus ad aequalitatem efficacissime reducunt (just before, redigit), Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 113: cicatrices ad colorem, id. 27, 12, 82, § 106: corpus sensim ad maciem, id. 24, 8, 30, § 46: ulcera ac scabiem jumentorum ad pilum, id. 22, 22, 32, § 72.— Hence, rĕ-ductus, a, um, P. a., drawn back, withdrawn; of place, retired, remote, distant, lonely. A. Lit.: inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos, Verg. G. 4, 420; id. A. 1, 161; so, vallis, id. ib. 6, 703; Hor. C. 1, 17, 17; id. Epod. 2, 11.— B. Trop.: virtus est medium vitiorum et utrimque reductum, from either extreme, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 9.— In painting: alia eminentiora, alia reductiora fecerunt, less prominent, Quint. 11, 3, 46: producta et reducta (bona), a transl. of the Gr. προηγμένα καὶ ἀποπροηγμένα of the Stoics, things to be preferred and those to be deferred, Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 90.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.
rĕdux Copy link Outline 1 qui est de retour, revenu : pourquoi avez-vous voulu mon retour [d'exil]? ...2 [poét.] qui ramène, qui fait revenir : . || abl. -ce, mais ... ⓘrĕdŭce: masc/fem/neut abl sg • rĕdux, ŭcis, adj. m. f. (reduco), 1. qui est de retour, revenu : quid me reducem esse voluistis ? Cic. Mil. 103, pourquoi avez-vous voulu mon retour [d'exil]? ; facere aliquem reducem Pl. Capt. 43 ; 437, faire revenir qqn, cf. Liv. 22, 60, 13 ; navi reduce Liv. 21, 50, 6, le navire étant ramené au port 2. [poét.] qui ramène, qui fait revenir : Curt. 9, 6, 9 ; Ov. H. 13, 50 ; Mart. 10, 70, 9. ➳ reddux Pl. Capt. 923 || abl. -ce, mais aussi -ci Ov. H. 6, 1.
rĕdūcō Copy link Outline 1 ramener :a) [choses] : ramener tout le reste des fortifications à quatre cents pieds ...b) [pers.] : faire revenir qqn d'exil ; ramener auprès de qqn, à ...c) [poét.] ramener le soleil, le jour, la nuit, l'été, etc. :2 [en part.] ramener qqn, lui faire la conduite, le reconduire :3 [milit.] ramener (rappeler) des troupes : ramener son armée dans le camp, ...4 [fig.] réconcilier qqn, qqn avec qqn ; ramener qqn au devoir ; ...5 amener à un autre état, amener à, réduire à : amener à ... ⓘrĕdūce: pres imperat act 2nd sg • rĕdūcō, dūxī, ductum, ĕre, tr., 1. ramener : a) [choses] : reliquas omnes munitiones ab ea fossa pedes quadringentos reducere Cæs. G. 7, 72, 2, ramener tout le reste des fortifications à quatre cents pieds en arrière du fossé, cf. Cæs. G. 7, 24, 5 ; falces tormentis introrsus Cæs. G. 7, 22, 2, attirer à l'intérieur les faux des assiégeants au moyen de machines ; b) [pers.] : aliquem de exsilio Cic. Phil. 2, 9, faire revenir qqn d'exil ; ab exsilio Quint. 5, 11, 9 ; ad aliquem Cic. Off. 3, 86, ramener auprès de qqn, à qqn ; reduci in carcerem Cic. Att. 4, 6, 2, être ramené en prison ; regem reducere Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 1, ramener un roi sur le trône || reductus, ramené d'exil Cic. Rab. Post. 47 ; Cæs. C. 3, 18, 4 ; c) [poét.] ramener le soleil, le jour, la nuit, l'été, etc. : Virg. En. 1, 143 ; G. 1, 249 ; En. 11, 914 ; G. 3, 296 2. [en part.] ramener qqn, lui faire la conduite, le reconduire : Cic. Læl. 12 ; Ac. 1, 1 ; CM 63 ; Quint. 12, 8, 3 3. [milit.] ramener (rappeler) des troupes : Cæs. G. 3, 29, 3 ; 6, 29, 2 ; 7, 68, 1, etc. ; exercitum in castra Cæs. G. 1, 50, 2 ; ex Britannia Cæs. G. 4, 38, ramener son armée dans le camp, de Bretagne ; copias a munitionibus Cæs. G. 7, 88, 5, ramener les troupes des retranchements [de l'assaut des retranchements] 4. [fig.] aliquem in gratiam, in gratiam cum aliquo Cic. Clu. 101 ; Rab. Post. 19, réconcilier qqn, qqn avec qqn ; aliquem ad officium Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 98, ramener qqn au devoir ; in memoriam avec interr. indir. Cic. Inv. 1, 98, rappeler ; in memoriam alicujus rei Plin. Min. Ep. 3, 10, 2, rappeler qqch. || ramener, rétablir, restaurer : habitum vestitumque pristinum Suet. Aug. 40, rétablir la tenue et le costume d'autrefois, cf. Suet. Aug. 38 || ramener [dans le bon chemin] : Ter. Ad. 830 5. amener à un autre état, amener à, réduire à : in formam Ov. M. 15, 381, amener à une certaine forme ; corpus ad maciem Plin. 24, 46, amener le corps à la maigreur. ➳ [poét.] re allongé (redduco) Ter. Ad. 830, etc. ; Lucr. 1, 228, etc. || impér. arch. redduce Ter. Hec. 605.
redux Copy link ⓘrĕdŭce: masc/fem/neut abl sg REDVX ucis. Adi. [παλίνοστος, παλίνορσος] Qui a periculis in tutum ab exilio siue captiuitate reducitur in patriam. […] 🗁 Page Scan .
reduco Copy link ⓘrĕdūce: pres imperat act 2nd sg REDVCO � xi, ctum, ere. [ἀνάγω, ἐπανάγω, κατάγω] Retroducere, retrahere, in pristinam conditionem perducere: interdum simpliciter videtur esse ducere, vel deducere: plerumque tamen inuenias rationem aliquam Praepositionis Re. […] 🗁 Page Scan .
reduce Copy link Outline I. To bring into any condition1. rĕdĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3 (constr. with acc. dep. on in, ad or sub, with an adv. of place, or abs.)2. rĕdūco, xi, ctum, 3 (to lead back)3. rĕvŏco, 1 (to refer)4. dētrūdo, si, sum, 3 (to thrust down, r. violently)5. in pass. rĕcĭdo, cĭdi, cāsum, 3 (rē sometimes in the poets6. like preced. rĕdeo, 4 (to return, to be r.d to)II. To diminish1. rĕdĭgo, ēgi, actum, 32. mĭnuo, ui, ūtum, 3III. To subdueIV. Med. t. t.1. rĕpōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3 (to replace, set)2. rĕcompōno, 3 • reduce: I. To bring into any condition: 1. rĕdĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3 (constr. with acc. dep. on in, ad or sub, with an adv. of place, or abs.): to r. men to slavery, viros in servitutem r., Pl. Aul. 2, 1, 47. to r. the Arverni to a province, Arvernos in provinciam r., Caes. B. G. 1, 45: to r. to order what we have discovered, illa quae invenimus in ordinem r., Auct. Her. 3, 9, 16 to r. to the ranks, in ordinem r., Suet. Vesp. 15 (v. degrade) to r. to powder, ad minutiam r., Sen. Ep. 90, 23 to r. to poverty, ad inopiam r., Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 56 to r. to despair, ad desperationem r., Suet. Aug. 81: to r. to extremities, ad incitas r., Pl. Poen. 4, 2, 84: to what am I r.d! quo redactus sum! Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 7. 2. rĕdūco, xi, ctum, 3 (to lead back): to r. to shape, in formam r., Ov. M. 15, 81: to r. excrescences on the flesh, carnes excrescentes ad aequalitatem r., Plin. 30, 13, 39, ad init. (along with redigere): to r. fractions to their lowest terms, *fractiones ad minimos terminos r. 3. rĕvŏco, 1 (to refer): to r. everything to the rules of art, r. omnia ad artem et ad praecepta, Cic. de Or. 2, 11. 44. 4. dētrūdo, si, sum, 3 (to thrust down, r. violently): to r. oneself to beggary, ad mendicitatem se d., Pl. Men. 1, 3, 21: to r. to the necessity of civil war, ad necessitatem belli civilis d., Tac. A. 13, 43: Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114. 5. in pass. rĕcĭdo, cĭdi, cāsum, 3 (rē sometimes in the poets: to be brought down, to be r.d): to suffer the power of the royal dignity to be r.d to such a point, sinere regiae majestatis imperium eo r., Liv. 4, 2, ad med.: Cic. 6. like preced. rĕdeo, 4 (to return, to be r.d to): Caesar had been r.d to two legions, Caesar ad duas legiones redierat, Caes. B. G. 5, 48, ad init.: if my fortunes are r.d so low, si eo meae fortunae redierint, Ter. Ph. 1, 4, 23. Phr.: to r. to writing, literis mandare, Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 52: to r. within the limits of ancient manners, ad priscum morem recīdere (aliquid), Tac. A. 3, 53: military discipline had been r.d to a regular system, disciplina militaris in artis perpetuis praeceptis ordinatae modum venerat, Liv. 9, 17: which distance, r.d to Roman measurement, makes ..., quae mensura Romana computatione efficit ..., Plin. 2, 108, 112, ad fin. II. To diminish: 1. rĕdĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3: they said they were r.d from 60,000 men to barely 5000, ex hominum millibus LX. vix ad D. sese redactos esse dixerunt, Caes. B. G. 2, 28: to r. to nothing, r. ad nihilum, Lucr. 1, 791: to r. to 4 per cent., r. ad semuncias, Tac. A. 6, 16. 2. mĭnuo, ui, ūtum, 3: expenses must be r.d, minuendi sunt sumptus, Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59: so, sumptum extenuare, ib. Phr.: his strength being greatly r.d by an inveterate disease, diutino morbo viribus admodum attenuatis, Liv. 39, 49: to r. the system as much as possible, corpori quidquid possis detrahere, cf. Cic. Att. 6, 1, 2: to r. to 150, ad CL. retrahere, Suet. Caes. 41: a r.d weight, imminutum pondus, Plin. 33, 3, 13: to draw on a r.d scale, *minore modulo describere. III. To subdue: vinco, sŭbĭgo, etc.: v. conquer. IV. Med. t. t.: 1. rĕpōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3 (to replace, set): to r. a dislocated jaw, maxillam prolapsam r., Cels. 8, 11: to r. dislocations, luxata in locum r., Sen. Ep. 104, 18. 2. rĕcompōno, 3: to r. a fracture, r. fracturam, Veg. Vet. 2, 47, 3.
REDUCE Copy link • REDUCETo bring again or back, reducere: redigere: revocare: to reduce a sum to our money, *ad nostrae pecuniae rationem revocare aliquid. To constrain, force, redigere (e.g., ad nihilum, in formam provinciae, in ordinem, etc.). To subdue, vi subjicere: domare: in ditionem redigere. To lessen, bring down, *ad minorem modum redigere (to make smaller): contrahere (to contract): minuere, imminuere. To reduce the price of anything, pretium alicujus rei imminuere: to reduce the price of corn, annonam laxare, levare; pretium frumenti minuere; frugum pretia levare; ex hominum millibus LX. vix ad D., qui arma ferre possent, fere redactos esse dixerunt (Caes., B.G., 2, 28; reduced from sixty thousand to scarce five hundred). To reduce fractions, *fractiones ad minimos numeros reducere (technical term). To reduce a dislocation; Vid: DISLOCATION.