Some Reduxes

Redux reducit

Redux that means ‘that which returns’.¹ Specifically it means two things: in the active voice it means ‘that leads us back’, ‘that brings back’ ‘that returns’ (in Roman writing this usage is almost always an epithet of either of Jupiter or of Fortuna)—and in the passive voice, it means ‘that is led or brought back’, for instance from slavery, imprisonmen…