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rĕcī̆prŏco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [reciprocus].

  1. I. Act., to move backwards or back and forth (rare but class.; cf.: meo, remeo).
    1. A. Lit.: rursus prorsus reciprocat fluctus feram, bears to and fro, Enn. ap. Non. 165, 11, and 384 fin. (Trag. v. 143 Vahl.): refluusque reciprocat aestus, Sil. 15, 225: (ventus) cum jam spiritum includeret nec reciprocare animam sineret, to breathe, fetch their breath, Liv. 21, 58, 4: spiritum per fistulam, Gell. 17, 11, 4: aurae per anhelitum reciprocatae, Arn. 2, 54: manu telum reciprocans, brandishing, Gell. 9, 11, 5: quid Chalcidico Euripo in motu identidem reciprocando putas fieri posse constantius? Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24; cf. under II.: serram, to draw back and forth, Tert. Cor. Mil. 3: circulos, Prud. στεφ. 10, 573: quinqueremem in adversum aestum reciprocari non posse, would not be able to tack about, Liv. 28, 30; cf.: quoniam aestus semper e Ponto profluens nunquam reciprocetur, flow back, Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 93: reciprocari mare coepit, Curt. 9, 9, 20.
    2. * B. Trop., to reverse, convert a proposition: si quidem ista sic reciprocantur, ut et, si divinatio sit, dii sint, et si dii sint, sit divinatio, Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10.
  2. II. Neutr., to move backwards, go back; to move back and forth, to come and go, reciprocate (perh. only since the Aug. per.): fretum ipsum Euripi non septies die temporibus statis reciprocat, rises and falls, Liv. 28, 6; so of the ebb and flow: Euripus, Plin. 2, 97, 100, § 219: mare, Curt. 9, 9, 20: aquae, Flor. 2, 8, 9; and of the ebb (opp. accedere), Plin. 2, 97, 89, § 212.
    Of stars: saepe citra eos ad solem reciprocent, Plin. 2, 17, 14, § 72: nubem eos arcentem a reciprocando, from going back, id. 9, 46, 70, § 151.
    Note: Reciprocare pro ultro citroque poscere usi sunt antiqui, quia procare est poscere, Fest. p. 229 Müll.

rĕcī̆prŏcus, a, um, adj. [perh. from reque proque, back and forth].

  1. I. Lit., turning back the same way, returning, receding (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): apud Attium: reciproca tendens nervo equino concita Tela; reciproca est, quom unde quid profectum, redit eo, flung back, Varr. L. L. 7, § 80 Müll. (an imitation of the Homeric παλίντονα τόξα).
    Esp. freq. of receding waters: vadosum ac reciprocum mare, Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 26: amnes, id. 9, 57, 83, § 176; 16, 36, 66, § 169; Tac. A. 1, 70; and of the ebb and flow, Plin. 2, 27, 99, § 213; hence, poet., an epithet of the sea, Sil. 3, 60.
  2. II. Trop., alternating, reciprocal, etc.: voces, reverberating echoes, Plin. 2, 44, 44, § 115: argumenta, retorted, Gr. ἀντιστρέφοντα, Gell. 5, 10, 2: ars, alternaling, reciprocal, Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 3; cf. taliones, Gell. 20, 1, 35: vices pugnandi, id. 15, 18, 3: epistulae, Hier. Ep. 5, 1: munus, Aus. Ep. 7.
      1. 2. In gram., pronomen, a reciprocal pronoun, as sibi, se, Prisc. p. 939 P.: versus, which has the same metre when the order of words is reversed, e. g. Verg. A. 1, 8 (4); Diom. p. 515 P.
        Hence, adv.: rĕcī̆prŏcē, alternately, to and fro (cf.: invicem, vicissim): fluere, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9.
        Transf., conversely, Prisc. 1142 P.