replicātio, ōnis, f. id.. * A folding or rolling back again (of a book). Transf.: ut replicatione quādam mundi motum regat atque tueatur, qs. by winding it up again, Cic. N. D. 1, 13, 33.

— In jurid. Lat., a reply, replication, Just. Inst. 4, 14; Dig. 27, 10, 7; 44, 2, 24 al.

— Numeri (opp. multiplicatio), a reduction of a number, Mart. Cap. 7, §§ 757, 759.

— A repetition: proeliorum, Sid. Ep. 1, 5.

— Also as rhet. t. t. = ἀναδίπλωσις, Mart. Cap. 5, § 533.