ex-cŏquo — Lewis & Short
ex-cŏquo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.,
I to boil out, melt out, dry up.
I Lit.:
usque coquito, dum dimidium excoquas,i. e. you boil away, Cato, R. R. 107, 2:
mustum ad dimidium,Col. 12, 19, 1:
testudinem vino,to boil thoroughly, Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 38:
glebas melle,id. 37, 12, 74, § 194:
ferrum (ignis),i. e. to harden, Ov. M. 14, 712:
harenas admixto nitro in vitrum,Tac. H. 5, 7:
lapide cremato in caminis donec excoquatur in rubricam,Plin. 34, 13, 37, § 135:
ignis vitium metallis excoquit,Ov. F. 4, 786:
omne per ignes vitium,Verg. G. 1, 88;
hence, excoctum argentum,i. e. purified, Gell. 6, 5, 9; cf.:
excoxi te, non quasi argentum,Vulg. Isa. 48, 10:
imagines excoctae flammis,melted down, Plin. Pan. 52, 5:
excoctum parum habet suci,Varr. L. L. 5, § 109 Müll.:
terram sol excoquit et facit are,dries up, Lucr. 6, 962; cf.:
tam excoctam (ancillam) reddam atque atram quam carbo est,Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63.—With an abstr. object: cruditatem Laconicis, qs. to boil out, i. e. to drive out by steam-baths, Col. 1 praef. §
16: excocta maturitas hordei,i. e. overripe, Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 80.—
II Trop.:
malum alicui,to devise, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 53 (cf. coquo):
mentem,to plague, vex, Sen. Herc. Fur. 105 (cf. coquo).