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rĕ-mĕo, āvi, 1, v. n., to go or come back, to turn back, return (not freq. till after the Aug. period; only once in Cic.; in Cæs. not at all; syn.: redeo, regredior).

  1. I. Lit.: remeabo intro, Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 55: remeato audacter, id. As. 1, 3, 75: in ludum, Afr. ap. Fest. s. h. v. p. 277 Müll. (Com. Rel. p. 151 Rib.): in patriam, Ov. M. 15, 480: patrias in sedes, Tac. A. 14, 25 fin.: rursum in terga (with cedere), id. ib. 3, 21: ad se (legati), Liv. 9, 16: ex Campaniā, Tac. A. 15, 60; cf. Aegypto, id. ib. 2, 69: eodem remeante nuntio, Liv. 9, 3: navibus remeabat disjecto agmine, Tac. H. 5, 22; cf. Suet. Vit. Plin. fin.: (coturnices) cum ex Italiā trans mare remeant, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 8: greges nocte remeabant ad stabula, Liv. 24, 3, 5; Pall. 1, 39, 1.
          1. (β) Poet. and late Lat. with acc.: patrias remeabo inglorius urbes, Verg. A. 11, 793: Euboicos penates, Stat. S. 3, 5, 12: destinatas remeārunt sedes, Amm. 17, 13, 34: castra, App. M. 7 pr.
        1. b. Of inanimate subjects: cum umore consumpto neque terra ali posset neque remearet aër, would flow back again, * Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118: (naves) mari remeabant, Tac. A. 12, 17 fin.: remeante flumine, receding, id. H. 1, 86 fin.: bis adfluunt bisque remeant (aquae), Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 212.
    1. B. In partic., to come back as a victor, return home in triumph (poet.; cf. Cort. ad Luc. 7, 256; Burm. ad Val. Fl. 4, 589): victor ad Argos, Verg. A. 2, 95; cf.: victor domito ab hoste, Ov. M. 15, 569: Scythicis Crassus victor ab oris, Luc. 2, 553: nunc neque te longi remeantem pompa triumphi Excipit, id. 1, 286: triumpho, Stat. Th. 12, 164.
      With acc.: vetitos remeare triumphos, to return home to the triumph denied (me), Luc. 7, 256.
  2. II. Trop., to come back, return: transiit aetas, Quam cito, non segnis stat remeatque dies, Tib. 1, 4, 28.
    With acc.: si natura juberet A certis annis aevom remeare peractum, Hor. S. 1, 6, 94.
    In discourse: ad ordinem remeabo coeptorum, Amm. 22, 16, 24 al.
    Note: Lengthened collat. form remānant = remeant (like dănunt = dant, prodīnunt = prodeunt, redīnunt = redeunt): rivos camposque remanant, Enn. Fragm. ap. Fest. p. 282 Müll. (Ann. v. 72 Vahl.).

1. rēmus, i, m. [ἐρετμός], an oar.

  1. I. Lit., Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16: ut retinet navis cursum, intermisso impetu pulsuque remorum, Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 153; Caes. B. G. 3, 13: remis navem incitare, id. ib. 3, 14; 4, 25: remis contendere, id. ib. 5, 8; Verg. A. 1, 104; 552; Hor. Epod. 10, 6; id. A. P. 65: incumbere remis, Verg. A. 10, 294: remis insurgere, id. ib. 3, 207; 560: inpellere aequora remis, Ov. M. 3, 657.
    Prov.: remis velisque, velis remisque, remis ventisque; also, ventis remis, with sails and oars, i. e. with all one’s might, with all possible speed: ita citi remis velisque impellite puppim, Sil. 1, 568: res omni contentione, velis, ut ita dicam, remisque fugienda, Cic. Tusc. 3, 11, 25: laevam cuncta cohors remis ventisque petivit, Verg. A. 3, 563: inde ventis remis in patriam omni festinatione properavi, Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 3 (cf.: remigio veloque festinare, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 5).
    1. B. Poet., transf., of the wings of birds: alarum, Ov. M. 5, 558: pennarum (Icari), Sil. 12, 98.
      Of the hands and feet of a swimmer, Ov. H. 18, 215.
  2. II. Trop.: quaerebam, utrum panderem vela orationis statim, an eam ante paululum dialecticorum remis propellerem, Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 9 (shortly before, remigare; opp. vela facere).

2. Rĕmus, i, m., the brother of Romulus, Liv. 1, 5; 1, 7; Cic. Rep. 2, 2, 4; id. Div. 2, 38, 80; Verg. G. 2, 533; Ov. F. 3, 41; 4, 56; 5, 464.
In the poets, as the ancestor of the Romans, instead of the more usual Romulus: glubit magnanimos Remi nepotes, Cat. 58, 6: turba, Juv. 10, 73 Rupert.: plebs, Mart. 10, 76, 4: regna prima Remi, Prop. 2, 1, 23: domus, id. 4 (5), 1, 9: culmina, Stat. S. 2, 7, 60: signa, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 80.