Definition of redigo
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redigō, redigere, redēgī, redactus
ago
verb (3rd conjugation)
  1. To drive, lead, bring back
  2. To get together, call in, collect, raise, receive, take
  3. To bring or reduce
  4. to make or render
  5. to make or render
  6. to bring within
Abbreviations
red-igo, ēgi, actum, 3, v. a. ago. To drive, lead, or bring back (syn. reduco). Lit.: (Sol) Disjectos redegit equos, Lucr. 5, 403: si materiem nostram collegerit aetas Post obitum, rursumque redegerit, ut sita nunc est, bring it back, restore it to its present condition, id. 3, 848: filia parva duas redigebat rupe capellas, Ov. F. 4, 511: tauros in gregem, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 12; cf.: in sua rura boves, Ov. F. 3, 64: oppidani (hostem) fusum fugatumque in castra redigunt, Liv. 21, 9: hostium equitatum in castra, id. 26, 10: turbam ferro in hostes, id. 37, 43: aliquem Capuam, id. 26, 12 fin.: aliquem in exsilium, Just. 9, 4, 7.

— Trop.: rem ad pristinam belli rationem redegit, Caes. B. C. 1, 76 fin.: annum neglegentia conturbatum ad pristinam rationem, Suet. Aug. 31: disciplinam militarem ad priscos mores, Liv. 8, 6 fin.: aliquid ad ultimam sui generis formam speciemque, Cic. Or. 3, 10: omnia redegit in singulas rationes praeceptionis, Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3: aliquem in concordiam, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 13: vos in gratiam, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 73: tu, qui ais, redige in memoriam, recall it to my mind, id. ib. 2, 3, 36: in memoriam, Cic. Phil. 2, 7, 18; id. Fam. 1, 9, 9: (poetae) formidine fustis Ad bene dicendum delectandumque redacti, brought back, reduced, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 155.

—Far more freq., (With the idea of agere predominant; cf. recido and redeo, II.) To get together, call in, collect, raise, receive, take a sum of money or the like by selling, etc.: cum omnem pecuniam ex aerario exhausissetis, ex vectigalibus redegissetis, ab omnibus regibus coegissetis, Cic. Agr. 2, 36, 98; cf.: pecuniam ex bonis patriis, id. Phil. 13, 5, 10; and simply pecuniam, id. Rab. Post. 13, 37; Hor. Epod. 2, 69: omne argentum tibi, to scrape together, Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 23: bona vendit, pecuniam redigit ... pecunia, quam ex Agonidis bonis redegisset, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 56; cf. Liv. 5, 16: quod omnis frumenti copia decumarum nomine penes istum esset redacta, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 73, § 171: fructus, Dig. 36, 4, 5, § 22 (after colere agros); 22, 1, 46; cf.: pars maxima (praedae) ad quaestorem redacta est, Liv. 5, 19: fructus ad eum, Dig. 10, 2, 51: quicquid captum ex hostibus est, vendidit Fabius, consul, ac redegit in publicum, paid it into the public treasury, Liv. 2, 42: venditum sub hastā in aerarium, id. 4, 53: (patres) victi irā vetuere reddi (bona regia), vetuere in publicum redigi, id. 2, 5, 1; cf.: praedam in fiscum, Tac. H. 4, 72: aliquid in commune, Dig. 17, 2, 52, § 6.

— To bring or reduce a thing to any condition, circumstance, etc.; to make or render it so and so (cf. reddo); constr. with in (so most freq.), ad, sub, an adv. of place, absol., or with a double acc. With in: viros in servitutem, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 47: Aeduos in servitutem, Caes. B. G. 2, 14, 3: in pristinam sortem servitutis, Just. 6, 5, 1: vidulum in potestatem alicujus, Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 22: civitatem in potestatem, Caes. B. G. 7, 13 fin.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 24 fin.; 45; Cic. Quint. 55, 152; id. Phil. 5, 17, 46; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 13, § 33; Tac. Agr. 18; Vell. 2, 94, 4; cf.: civitatem in dicionem potestatemque populi Romani, Caes. B. G. 2, 34 fin.: aliquos in dicionem, Cic. Balb. 10, 25; Liv. 41, 19: gentes in dicionem hujus imperii, Cic. Phil. 4, 5, 13: Arvernos in provinciam, to reduce to a province, Caes. B. G. 1, 45; 7, 77 fin.; cf.: partem Britanniae, etc., in formam provinciae, Tac. Agr. 14; Suet. Caes. 25; id. Aug. 18; id. Tib. 37 fin.; id. Calig. 1; Liv. Epit. 45; 93: in formulam provinciae, Vell. 2, 38, 1: in formam praefecturae, id. 2, 44, 4: in id redactus sum loci, Ut, etc., Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 86; cf.: republicā in tranquillum redactā, Liv. 3, 40; and: mentem in veros timores, Hor. C. 1, 37, 15: si hoc genus (pecuniarum) in unum redigatur, be brought into one mass, Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 13: dispositio est, per quam illa, quae invenimus, in ordinem redigimus, reduce to order, Auct. Her. 3, 9, 16; cf.: arbores in ordinem certaque intervalla, Quint. 8, 3, 9; but: ut veteres grammatici auctores alios in ordinem redegerint, alios omnino exemerint numero, brought, admitted into the rank of classics (cf. Gr. ἐγκρίνειν; opp. numero eximere = ἐκκρίνειν): libertinos in equestrem ordinem, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 18; Just. 5, 6, 5; Quint. 1, 4, 3; for which: redigere aliquem (poetam) in numerum, id. 10, 1, 54; also, to lower, degrade, Suet. Vesp. 15; v. ordo; cf. Liv. ap. Prisc. 1173 P.; Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 5: quod prosa scriptum redigere in quaedam versiculorum genera, Quint. 9, 4, 52: in hanc consuetudinem memoriā exercitatione redigendā, id. 11, 2, 45: servos, in dominium nostrum, Dig. 1, 5, 5: in nihilum redigam te, et non eris, Vulg. Ezech. 26, 21: in cinerem, id. 2 Pet. 2, 6: provinciam in solitudinem, Lact. de Ira Dei, 5, 4.

— With ad: aliquem ad inopiam redigere, to reduce to poverty, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 56: aliquem ad incitas, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 85; id. Trin. 2, 4, 136: genus id ad interitum, Lucr. 5, 877; Cic. ap. Lact. 7, 11, 5; cf.: prope ad internecionem gente ac nomine Nerviorum redacto, Caes. B. G. 2, 28: ad nihilum redigere, Vulg. Psa. 72, 20: victoriam ad vanum et irritum, to render empty and useless, Liv. 26, 37 fin.: cf.: spem ad irritum, id. 28, 31: aliquid ante dubium ad certum, to render certain, id. 44, 15: carnes excrescentes ad aequalitatem, Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 113 (shortly afterwards reducunt); cf.: cicatrices ad planum, id. 20, 9, 36, § 93: aliquem ad desperationem, Suet. Aug. 81; Just. 6, 5, 7 et saep.: redegit se ad pallium et crepidas, Suet. Tib. 13.

— With sub: Galliam sub populi Romani imperium, Caes. B. G. 5, 29, 4: Corcyram sub imperium Atheniensium, Nep. Timoth. 2, 1: barbaros sub jus dicionemque, Liv. 28, 21: incolas ejus insulae sub potestatem Atheniensium, Nep. Milt. 1, 4; 2 fin.; id. Paus. 2, 4; id. Pelop. 5: totam Italiam sub se, id. Flor. 1, 9, 8: GENTES SVB IMPERIVM, Inscr. Grut. 226.

— With adv. of place: eo redigis me, ut, etc., Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 23: eo, ut, Flor. 1, 2, 4: hem! Quo redactus sum! Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 7.

—(ε) Absol.: ut credam, redigunt animum mihi argumenta, Att. ap. Non. 174, 10 (Trag. Rel. v. 516 Rib.): ut ejus animum retundam, redigam, ut, quo se vortat, nesciat, bring it down, so that, etc., Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 73; Lucr. 1, 553.

— (ζ) With double acc., to make or render a thing something (very rare; more freq. reddere): quae facilia ex difficillimis animi magnitudo redegerat, Caes. B. G. 2, 27 fin.: (Ubios) Suevi multo humiliores infirmioresque redegerunt, id. ib. 4, 3 fin.; Aus. Mos. 224.

— In designations of number, etc., pregn., to bring within a number or extent; to lessen, diminish, reduce: familiam jam ad paucos redactam paene ab interitu vindicasti, Cic. Marcell. 4, 10; cf.: redigere omnis fere in quadrum numerumque sententias, id. Or. 61, 208: hosce ipsos (libros octo) utiliter ad sex libros redegit Diophanes, reduced, abridged, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 10: ex hominum milibus LX. vix ad D.... sese redactos esse dixerunt, Caes. B. G. 2, 28: ad semuncias redacta, Tac. A. 6, 16: judicia ad duo genera judicum redegit, Suet. Caes. 41; id. Vesp. 10: non ad numerum redigar duorum, Ov. M. 6, 199: quod si comminuas vilem redigatur ad assem, Hor. S. 1, 1, 43: ne res ad nilum redigantur funditus omnes, Lucr. 1, 791; 2, 752; cf. Ov. M. 14, 149: rem maximam redigere ad minimum, Lact. 3, 9, 15.
 
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