“read” in Latin

legere (general term): recitare (to read aloud, recite): praeire, with or without voce (to read beforehand what another is to repeat: ☞ praelegere, in this sense, is not Latin). To be able to read, legere posse; litteras or litterarum elementa didicisse: to teach anybody to read, aliquem instituere ad lectionem (Quint., 1, 7, 17): elementa litterarum alicui tradere (elementary knowledge). To learn to read, primas litteras, prima elementa discere: to read well, commode legere (with good emphasis, etc.; e.g., a speech, sermon, etc.; opposed to male legere); librum ab oculo legere (Petronius, 75, 4; to read it off without spelling, etc): to read anything (opposed to repeating from memory), de scripto dicere; orationem or sermonem ex libello habere (☞ Suet., Oct., 84). Hence = to become acquainted with the contents of anything by reading; to amuse one’s self by reading, etc., legere; cognoscere (ἀναγιγνώσκειν, especially with attention = to study; Vid: Nep., Lys., 4, 3; Dat., 5, 5, sq.; Suet., Gramm., 24, init; Cic., Or., 33, 105): to read anything frequently, lectitare (Vid: Rlinius, Ep., 2, 17, 8, libri non legendi, sed lectitandi): very frequently, legendo conterere (= to wear out by reading): to read (a writing, book) carefully, diligenter evolvere; diligenter repetere: to read anything repeatedly, over and over again, repetere (general term); crebro regustare (e.g., epistolam, Cic., Att., 13, 13, extr.); recognoscere, retractare (to go over again, in order to make corrections, etc.): to be read much (of books which have a large circulation), frequenter lectitari; in manibus esse (Vid: Rlinius, Ep., 1, 2, 6): you have read, Demosthenes through; you still read his, and yet also read our writings, Demosthenem totum cognovisti, neque eum dimittis e manibus, et tamen nostra lectitas: to read a book, legere librum: to read anything in a book, legere aliquid in libro. Hence, figuratively, to read in or from anything = to discover signs from, etc.; e.g., to read futurity in the stars, e siderum positu et spatiis conjecturam facere de rebus futuris (☞ Tac., Ann., 6, 21, 3): to read anybody’s mind (i. e., to know his most secret thoughts, etc.), consiliorum omnium participem esse: to read anything in the looks of a person, aliquid ex alicujus oculis et vultu cognoscere, pernoscere, perspicere: one could read in his countenance the nobleness of his soul, quos spiritus gereret, vultu prae se ferebat (Vid: Tac., Hist., 4, 85, 1). To read a lecture, legere, praelegere aliquid (to lecture upon and explain; especially a poet, of the Silver Age): scholas habere de re (to give lectures on any subject): scholis praecipere aliquid or de re (to give instructions or lessons on anything, in single lectures): to read on the Stoic philosophy, scholam Stoicam explicare. Well read, qui multa legit et pervolutavit; multa lectione exercitus: well read in the writings of the ancients, in scriptis vetenbus multum volutatus: a tolerably well-read man, homo satis litteratus.