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|lnetxt=remitto remittere, remisi, remissus V :: send back, remit; throw back, relax, diminish

|lshtext=<b>rĕ-mitto</b>: mīsi, [[missum]], 3, v. a. and n.<br /><b>I</b> Act., to [[let]] go [[back]], [[send]] [[back]], [[despatch]] [[back]], [[drive]] [[back]], [[cause]] to [[return]] ([[class]]. and [[very]] freq.; cf. [[reddo]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen.: Al. Redde mihi illam (filiam) ... Non remissura es mihi illam? ... non remittes? Me. Non remittam! Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 29 sq.: a legione omnes remissi sunt domum Thebis, id. Ep. 2, 2, 22: aliquem domum, Caes. B. G. 1, 43 fin.; 4, 21; 7, 4 fin.; id. B. C. 3, 27 fin.: mulieres Romam, Cic. Att. 7, 23, 2: paucos in [[regnum]], Caes. B. C. 2, 44: Fabium cum legione in sua [[hiberna]], id. B. G. 5, 53: partem legionum in sua [[castra]], id. B. C. 3, 97: ad parentes aliquem nuntium, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 15: aliquem ad aliquem, id. Cas. 2, 8, 1; Cic. Fam. 16, 5, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 24; 26: obsides alicui, id. B. G. 3, 8 fin.; Lucil. ap. Lact. 5, 14: is [[argentum]] huc remisit, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 69: librum [[tibi]] remisi, Cic. Att. 9, 9, 2: [[pila]] intercepta, to [[cast]] or [[hurl]] [[back]], Caes. B. G. 2, 27; so, [[tractum]] de corpore [[telum]], Ov. M. 5, 95: epistulam ad aliquem, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 43: litteras Caesari, Caes. B. G. 5, 47; cf.: scripta ad eum mandata per eos, id. B. C. 1, 10: naves ad aliquem, id. B. G. 5, 23; so, naves, id. B. C. 1, 27: obsides, id. B. G. 3, 8; 3, 29: [[nonne]] vides [[etiam]], quantā vi tigna trabesque Respuat [[umor]] aquae? .. Tam [[cupide]] [[sursum]] revomit [[magis]] [[atque]] remittit, drives [[back]], Lucr. 2, 199; so, aquas [[longe]] ([[cautes]]), Sen. Hippol. 583: [[calces]] (equi), i. e. [[kick]] [[out]] [[behind]], Nep. Eum. 5, 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> To [[send]] [[forth]] from itself, [[give]] [[out]], [[yield]]: ut [[melius]] muriā, [[quam]] [[testa]] marina remittit, gives [[forth]], yields, Hor. S. 2, 8, 53: muriam, Col. 12, 9 init.: minimum seri, id. 12, 13: umorem ([[humus]]), id. 12, 15 init.: aeruginem (vasa aenea), id. 12, 20, 2: nec umenti sensit tellure remitti (nebulas), Ov. M. 1, 604: umorem ex se ipsa remittit, Verg. G. 2, 218: [[quod]] [[baca]] remisit olivae, Hor. S. 2, 4, 69: sanguinem e pulmone, Ov. P. 1, 3, 19.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> To [[let]] go [[back]], to [[loosen]], [[slacken]], [[relax]] [[any]] [[thing]] strained, [[bound]], [[rigid]], etc. (syn. [[relaxo]]; opp. [[intendo]], [[adduco]]): in agro ambulanti ramulum adductum, ut [[remissus]] esset, in oculum suum recidisse, Cic. Div. 1, 54, 123; cf.: habenas vel adducere vel remittere, id. Lael. 13, 45: frena, Ov. M. 2, 191 (opp. retinere); 6, 228: [[lora]], id. ib. 2, 200; id. Am. 3, 2, 14; cf.: [[vela]] pennarum, Lucr. 6, 743: ira contractis, [[hilaritas]] remissis (superciliis) ostenditur, Quint. 11, 3, 79: [[quattuor]] remissis (digitis) [[magis]] [[quam]] tensis, id. 11, 3, 99: digitis, Ov. H. 19, 197: remissis, id. M. 4, 229: junctasque [[manus]] remisit; vinclis remissis, etc., i. e. to [[loose]], id. ib. 9, 314 sq.: digitum contrahens ac remittens, Plin. 11, 26, 32, § 94: bracchia, i. e. to [[let]] [[sink]] or [[fall]] [[down]], Verg. G. 1, 202: remissas [[manus]], sinking or [[failing]], Vulg. Heb. 12, 12: frigore [[mella]] Cogit [[hiems]] eademque [[calor]] liquefacta remittit, dissolves [[again]], melts, Verg. G. 4, 36; cf.: cum se purpureo [[vere]] remittit [[humus]], opens [[again]], thaws, Tib. 3, 5, 4: [[vere]] [[remissus]] [[ager]], Ov. F. 4, 126. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> To [[leave]] [[behind]], [[produce]]: veluti tractata notam labemque remittunt Atramenta, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 235.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> Jurid. t. t.: remittere nuntium or [[repudium]], to [[send]] a [[bill]] of divorce, to [[dissolve]] a [[marriage]] or [[betrothal]]; v. [[nuntius]] and [[repudium]].—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen., to [[send]] [[back]], [[give]] [[back]], [[return]], [[restore]], [[dismiss]], [[remove]], etc.: ([[specula]]) simulacra remittunt, Lucr. 4, 337 Lachm.: vocem [[late]] nemora alta remittunt, Verg. A. 12, 929; cf.: totidemque remisit Verba [[locus]], Ov. M. 3, 500: [[chorda]] sonum ... remittit [[acutum]] ([[with]] reddere), Hor. A. P. 349: vos me imperatoris nomine appellavistis: cujus si vos paenitet, vestrum [[vobis]] [[beneficium]] [[remitto]], mihi [[meum]] restituite [[nomen]], Caes. B. C. 2, 32 fin.: [[quin]] [[etiam]] ipsis ([[imperium]]) remittere, id. B. G. 7, 20: integram causam ad senatum remittit, refers, Tac. A. 3, 10: a quibus appellatum erit, si [[forte]] ad eosdem remittemur, Quint. 11, 1, 76; 12, 10, 21: veniam, to [[return]], [[repay]], Verg. A. 4, 436: quae [[nisi]] respuis ex [[animo]] longeque remittis, Lucr. 6, 68; cf.: opinionem [[animo]], to [[dismiss]], [[reject]], [[cast]] [[off]], Cic. Clu. 2, 6: si [[quid]] ab omnibus conceditur, id [[reddo]] ac [[remitto]], [[resign]] it, id. Sull. 30, 84: utramque provinciam [[remitto]], exercitum [[depono]], id. Phil. 8, 8, 25: Galliam togatam, id. ib. 8, 9, 27.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> (Acc. to I A. 2. a.) To [[slacken]], [[relax]], [[relieve]], [[release]], [[abate]], [[remit]] (freq. and [[class]].): omnes sonorum tum intendens tum remittens persequetur [[gradus]], Cic. Or. 18, 59; cf.: (sonorum vis) tum remittit animos, tum contrahit, id. Leg. 2, 15, 38: [[quaero]] [[enim]] non quibus intendam rebus animum, sed quibus relaxem ac remittam, [[relieve]], recreate, [[refresh]], id. Fragm. ap. Non. 383, 23: ut requiescerem curamque animi remitterem, id. Verr. 2, 4, 61, § 137: animum per [[dies]] festos licentius, Liv. 27, 31; and in a [[like]] [[sense]] [[with]] se, Nep. Alcib. 1 fin.; and [[mid]].: mirum est, ut opusculis [[animus]] intendatur remittaturque, Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 13: animos a contentione pugnae, Liv. 5, 41: animos a certamine, id. 9, 12: animos a religione, id. 5, 25; cf.: [[nihil]] [[apud]] milites remittitur a summo certamine, id. 6, 24, 10: superioris temporis contentionem, Caes. B. C. 2, 14 fin.; cf. Cic. Brut. 55, 202: diligentiam in perdiscendo ac memoriam, Caes. B. G. 6, 14; cf.: curam et diligentiam remittunt, id. B. C. 2, 13: summum illud suum [[studium]] remisit, Cic. Brut. 93, 320: ea studia [[remissa]] temporibus revocavi, id. Tusc. 1, 1, 1: belli [[opera]], Liv. 30, 3: [[bellum]], id. 30, 23: pugnam, Sall. J. 60, 3 al.: urguent [[tamen]] et [[nihil]] remittunt, Cic. Fin. 4, 28, 77: equites petere ut sibi laxaret aliquid laboris; quibus [[ille]], ne [[nihil]] remissum dicatis, [[remitto]], etc., Liv. 9, 16: [[cottidie]] aliquid iracundiae remittebat, Cic. Phil. 8, 6, 19; cf. id. Att. 10, 4, 2: aliquid de suo, id. Rab. Post. 11, 31: horam de meis legitimis horis, id. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 25: aliquid de severitate cogendi, id. Phil. 1, 5, 12; 13, 17, 36: [[nihil]] de saevitiā, Tac. A. 6, 25 al.; cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 17: ex eo, [[quod]] [[ipse]] potest in dicendo, aliquantum remittet, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 48: aliquid ex pristinā virtute, Caes. B. C. 3, 28: aliquid ex curā verborum, Quint. 10, 7, 22; 7, 1, 22.—With [[ellipsis]] of aliquid, etc.: illum viris fortissimis remittere de summā non potuisse, te mulieri deterrimae recte remississe, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 35, § 82; Liv. 4, 43, 11: de voluntate [[nihil]], Cic. Brut. 5, 17: [[nihil]] e [[solito]] luxu, Tac. H. 3, 55: [[nihil]] ex arrogantiā, id. Agr. 27 al.— Impers.: tum [[aequo]] [[animo]] remittendum de celeritate existumabat, Caes. B. G. 5, 49.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With inf., to [[cease]], [[leave]] [[off]], [[omit]] to do [[any]] [[thing]] ([[rare]]; not in Cic. or Cæs.): si cogites, remittas jam me onerare injuriis, Ter. And. 5, 1, 8: [[neque]] remittit [[quid]] [[ubique]] [[hostis]] ageret explorare, Sall. J. 52, 5; cf.: [[quid]] [[bellicosus]] Cantaber cogitet, remittas Quaerere, Hor. C. 2, 11, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With se, or [[mid]]., to [[relax]], [[abate]]: ubi [[dolor]] et [[inflammatio]] se remiserunt, Cels. 4, 24 fin.; cf.: cum se [[furor]] [[ille]] remisit, Ov. H. 4, 51: quae (febres) certum habent circuitum et ex toto remittuntur, Cels. 3, 12; cf. under II.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mid., to recreate one's [[self]]: eundem, cum scripsi, eundem [[etiam]] cum remittor, [[lego]], Plin. Ep. 1, 16, 7; cf.: fas est et carmine remitti, id. ib. 7, 9, 9; cf. [[supra]]: [[animus]] remittatur, id. ib. 7, 9, 13.—（ε) To [[give]] [[free]] [[course]] to (opp. continere): animi [[appetitus]], qui tum remitterentur, tum continerentur, Cic. N. D. 2, 12, 34.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> With [[respect]] to a [[person]], to [[free]] one from [[any]] [[thing]]; to [[give]] up, [[grant]], [[forgive]], [[yield]], [[resign]], [[concede]], [[surrender]], [[sacrifice]] a [[thing]] to [[any]] one (= concedere, condonare); [[with]] acc. of the [[offence]]: Tranioni remitte [[quaeso]] hanc noxiam causā meā, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 47: injuriam, Sall. H. 3, 61, 2 Dietsch: [[quare]] tum [[cito]] [[senex]] [[ille]] remisit injuriam? Sen. Contr. 2, 11, 1: ut ex [[animo]] [[tibi]] [[volens]] omne [[delictum]] remittam, App. M. 3, p. 137, 29; so freq. in [[late]] Lat., to [[remit]], [[forgive]] a [[sin]] or [[offence]]: peccata, Vulg. Matt. 9, 2: [[blasphemia]], id. ib. 12, 31: cogitationem, id. Act. 8, 22. — Freq. [[with]] acc. of the [[penalty]]: multam, Cic. Phil. 11, 8, 18: poenam alicui, Liv. 40, 10, 9: ipso remittente Verginio ultimam poenam, id. 3, 59, 10; 8, 35, 1: omnia [[tibi]] ista concedam et remittam, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 22; cf. id. Ac. 2, 33, 106; and: alicui remittere [[atque]] concedere, ut, etc., id. Planc. 30, 73: meam animadversionem et suppli cium ... [[remitto]] [[tibi]] et [[condono]], Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10, 2: [[quod]] [[natura]] remittit, Invida jura negant, Ov. M. 10, 330: si per populum Romanum [[stipendium]] remittatur, Caes. B. G. 1, 44: pecunias, quas erant in publicum Varroni cives Romani polliciti, remittit, id. B. C. 2, 21; cf. Liv. 42, 53: [[aedes]] (venditas) alicui, to [[give]] up, [[resign]] a [[purchase]], Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 111: [[tempus]] [[vobis]], Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 30: ut [[patria]] [[tantum]] nobis in [[nostrum]] privatum usum, [[quantum]] ipsi superesse posset, remitteret, id. Rep. 1, 4, 8: navem imperare debuisti ex foedere: remisisti in [[triennium]]: militem nullum [[umquam]] poposcisti per tot annos, id. Verr. 2, 4, 9, § 21: [[tibi]] remittunt omnes istam voluptatem et eā se carere patiuntur, [[resign]] [[that]] [[pleasure]] to [[you]], id. de Or. 1, 58, 246: ut memoriam simultatium patriae remitteret, [[sacrifice]] to his [[country]], Liv. 9, 38; cf.: privata odia publicis utilitatibus remittere, Tac. A. 1, 10: ut sibi poenam magistri equitum remitteret ([[dictator]]), [[that]] he would [[remit]] for [[their]] [[sake]], Liv. 8, 35: [[dictator]] consulibus in senatu [[magnifice]] conlaudatis et suarum [[quoque]] rerum illis remisso honore, dictaturā se abdicavit, having been [[resigned]] in [[their]] [[favor]], id. 7, 11: jus ipsi remittent, [[will]] [[abandon]] [[their]] [[claim]], id. 6, 18, 7.— Absol.: remittentibus tribunis [[plebis]] [[comitia]] per interregem sunt habita, withdrawing [[their]] [[opposition]], Liv. 6, 36, 3: de tributo remiserunt, id. 5, 12, 13; cf. Tac. A. 1, 8: si hoc ipsi remitti vellent, remitterent ipsi de maritumis custodiis, Caes. B. C. 3, 17.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Poet., [[with]] inf., to [[allow]], [[permit]]: sed [[mora]] damnosa est nec res dubitare remittit, Ov. M. 11, 376; cf.: (Fides) [[occulte]] saevire vetat, [[prodesse]] remittit, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 37. —<br /><b>II</b> Neutr., to [[decrease]], [[abate]] ([[very]] [[rare]], [[but]] [[class]].): si [[forte]] [[ventus]] remisisset, Caes. B. C. 3, 26: imbres, Liv. 40, 33, 4: [[pestilentia]], id. 2, 34, 6: cum remiserant dolores [[pedum]], Cic. Brut. 34, 130; cf.: si remittent [[quippiam]] Philumenae dolores, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 14: [[tumor]] remittens, Cels. 7, 18: [[vapor]] [[calidus]] [[primo]] non remittit [[propter]] levitatem, does not [[sink]], Vitr. 8, 2.— Hence, rĕmissus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. A. 2. a.), [[slack]], [[loose]], relaxed, [[languid]] (opp. [[contentus]], contendere): membra, Lucr. 5, 852.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: ut onera contentis corporibus facilius feruntur, remissis opprimunt, Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54; cf.: vox, ut nervi, quo remissior, hoc gravior et plenior, Quint. 11, 3, 42: ridens [[Venus]] et remisso Filius arcu, Hor. C. 3, 27, 67: ammoniacum, i. e. [[liquid]], Pall. 1, 41, 2; cf. [[adeps]], Veg. 1, 11, 4. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., relaxed, not [[rigid]], [[strict]], or [[hard]], [[both]] in a [[good]] and [[bad]] [[sense]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mild, [[gentle]], [[soft]], [[indulgent]], [[cheerful]], [[good]]-humored, [[gay]], etc. (syn.: [[lenis]], [[mitis]], [[dulcis]]): remissior [[ventus]], Caes. B. C. 3, 26: remissiora frigora, id. B. G. 5, 12 fin.: cantūs remissiores, Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 254; cf.: tum intentis tum remissis modis, Quint. 11, 3, 17: si me non improbissime [[Dolabella]] tractasset, dubitassem [[fortasse]], [[utrum]] remissior essem, an summo jure contenderem, Cic. Att. 16, 15, 1: in eo sermone non remissi sumus, id. Fin. 3, 1, 2: [[remissus]] et subridens, Tac. Or. 11 init.: [[nisi]] [[magistratus]] [[valde]] lenes et remissi sint, Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 66: in ulciscendo remissior, id. Red. ad Quir. 7, 23: [[animus]] ([[with]] [[lenis]]), id. de Or. 2, 46, 193; cf.: remississimo ad [[otium]] et ad omnem comitatem [[animo]], i. e. [[most]] [[prone]], Suet. Aug. 98: [[remissus]] et [[mitis]], Plin. Ep. 3, 14, 5: cum tristibus [[severe]], cum remissis jucunde vivere, Cic. Cael. 6, 13; cf. Suet. Galb. 14; id. Claud. 21: [[decorus]] est [[sermo]] senis [[quietus]] et [[remissus]], Cic. Sen. 9, 28: remissius [[genus]] dicendi, id. Sest. 54, 115: [[amicitia]] remissior esse debet et liberior et dulcior, id. Lael. 18, 66; cf. [[affectus]], Quint. 10, 1, 73: egressiones dulces et remissae, id. 11, 3, 164: joci, [[gay]], [[merry]] (opp. curae graves), Ov. M. 3, 319; cf.: remissiores hilarioresque sermones, Suet. Tib. 21: [[opus]], Ov. Tr. 2, 547. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Slack, [[negligent]], [[remiss]] (syn. [[languidus]]): esse remisso ac languido [[animo]], Caes. B. C. 1, 21; cf.: nostris languentibus [[atque]] [[animo]] remissis, id. ib. 2, 14: [[dolus]] Numidarum [[nihil]] languidi [[neque]] remissi patiebatur, i. e. no [[negligence]], Sall. J. 53, 6; 88, 2: in labore, Nep. Iphic. 3, 1: oderunt agilem gnavumque remissi, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 90: remissior in petendo, Cic. Mur. 26, 52: [[vita]] remissior, Suet. Tib. 52.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Lower, cheaper: remissior [[aliquanto]] ejus fuit [[aestimatio]] [[quam]] [[annona]], [[below]] the [[market]] [[price]], Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 92, § 214. — Hence, adv.: rĕ-missē (acc. to B. 1.), [[gently]], [[mildly]] ([[with]] [[leniter]], [[urbane]]; opp. [[severe]], [[graviter]], [[vehementer]], etc.), Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 102; id. Cael. 14, 33; Col. 1, 8, 10; Quint. 10, 2, 23; 12, 10, 71; Suet. Claud. 30.—Comp., Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255; id. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 76; Quint. 9, 2, 91.—Sup. is not [[found]].