revocātio, ōnis, f. id., a calling back or away, a recalling (rare but good prose). Lit.: a bello (with receptui signum), Cic. Phil. 13, 7, 15.

— Transf., in plur.: revocationes lunae a sole, Vitr. 9, 4 fin.

— Trop.: revocatio ad contemplandas voluptates, Cic. Tusc. 3, 15, 33.

— Ejusdem verbi crebrius positi quaedam distinctio et revocatio, i.e. qualification and withdrawal, as a fig. of speech, Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206; Quint. 9, 1, 33.

— As law t. t., the right of one absent from home to appeal to a court of his own state or country, Dig. 5, 1, 3, § 3 (cf. revoco, B. 2. c.).