rĕ-cŏquo — Lewis & Short
rĕ-cŏquo, coxi, coctum, 3, v. a.,
I to cook or boil over again.
I Lit.: Peliam, * Cic. Sen. 23, 83; cf.
of the same: fessos aetate parentes,Val. Fl. 6, 444:
lana recocta (in dyeing),Sen. Ep. 71, 31:
ceram (in the sun),Plin. 21, 14, 49, § 84:
Velabrensi massa recocta fumo,Mart. 11, 53, 10.—
B Transf., to prepare again by fire; to burn, melt, cast, or forge again, Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 23:
re coquunt patrios fornacibus enses,Verg. A. 7, 636; so,
electrum aurumque,id. ib. 8, 624:
spicula,Luc. 7, 148:
ferrum,Flor. 3, 20, 6.—
II Trop.: (Cicero se) Apollonio Moloni formandum ac velut recoquendum dedit, to recast, remould, * Quint. 12, 6, 7: Fuffitio seni recocto, youthful, hale, lusty (alluding to the fable of Pelias), Cat. 54, 5; so,
scriba,Hor. S. 2, 5, 55:
anus vino,Petr. Fragm. in Diom. p. 517 P.