I.to press back, keep back; to check, curb, restrain (class., partic. in the trop. sense; cf.: repello, refuto).
I. Lit.: illa praedicta Veientium, si lacus Albanus redundasset, Romam periturum; “si repressus esset, Veios,” Cic. Div. 2, 32, 69: “amnem,” Flor. 1, 1, 3: “fontes,” Stat. Th. 5, 522: “alvum,” Cels. 2, 12; cf.: “medicamenta reprimentia,” id. 6, 6, 2; 6, 16, 2 al.: “vulvas procidentes,” Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 182: “sudorem,” id. 20, 13, 51, § 142: “labra,” Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 16: “dextram,” Verg. A. 12, 939: “ensem,” Stat. Th. 11, 309: “retro pedem cum voce,” Verg. A. 2, 378.— “Of personal objects: represso jam Lucterio et remoto,” forced back, Caes. B. G. 7, 8; cf.: “aliquem repressum, non oppressum relinquere,” Cic. Mur. 15, 32.—
II. Trop. (the figure borrowed from the restraining, confining of a stream), to check, curb, restrain, limit, confine, repress: “difficilem quandam temperantiam postulant in eo, quod semel admissum coërceri reprimique non potest,” Cic. Fin. 1, 1, 2; cf.: “furorem exsultantem reprimere,” id. Sest. 44, 95: “intellego hanc rei publicae pestem paulisper reprimi, non in perpetuum comprimi posse,” id. Cat. 1, 12, 30: “memoria, non exstincta, sed repressa vetustate,” suppressed, id. Cael. 30, 71: “impetus hostium repressos esse intellegunt ac retardatos,” id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 13: “iis regios spiritus repressit,” Nep. Dion, 5, 5: “animi incitationem atque alacritatem non reprimere sed augere,” Caes. B. C. 3, 92 fin.: “cursum,” id. ib. 3, 93: “itinera,” Cic. Att. 10, 9: “fugam hostium,” Caes. B. G. 3, 14: “iracundiam,” Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 8; 9: “nunc reprimam susceptam objurgationem,” Cic. Att. 4, 16, 9 (15): “illius conatus,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 64: “consuetudinem peccandi,” id. ib. 2, 2, 22, § “53: fletum,” id. Rep. 6, 15, 15: “gemitum,” Ov. M. 9, 163 et saep.: “odium suum a corpore alicujus,” Cic. Sest. 55, 117: “famam,” id. Phil. 11, 10, 23: “ferocitatem,” id. Off. 2, 11, 40: “impetum,” id. Leg. 3, 12, 27.— Poet., with inf.: ast occasus ubi tempusve audere repressit, the bold undertaking, Enn. ap. Tert. p. 178 Müll. (Ann. v. 292 Vahl.).— “Of personal objects: quem neque fides, neque jusjurandum ... Repressit,” has restrained, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 9: “me ... horum aspectus in ipso cursu orationis repressit,” Cic. Sest. 69, 144: “quem L. Murena repressum magnā ex parte, non oppressum reliquit,” id. Mur. 15, 32: reprimam me, ne aegre quicquam ex me audias, I will control myself, check or restrain myself, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 38; so, “me,” id. Heaut. 1, 2, 25; Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 44: “hac repressi castigatione in proelium redeunt,” Just. 1, 6, 15; cf. “mid.: vix reprimor, quin te manere jubeam,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 58: “se ab omni contagione vitiorum,” Plin. Pan. 83, 2.— Hence, adv.: rĕpressē , with restraint, constrainedly: “repressius peccare,” Gell. 12, 11, 5: “repressius actum est,” Amm. 29, 2, 12.
