The corpus record — Latin

refrico

refrico · v. a

to rub

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

rē^-frĭco — Lewis & Short

rē^-frĭco, ŭi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

I Act., to rub or scratch open again, to gall, fret (a favorite word of Cic.; otherwise rare).

A Lit., Cato, R. R. 87: vulnera, to tear open, Cic. Att. 5, 15, 2; so, vulnus, id. ib. 12, 18, a, 1; id. Fl. 23, 54: obductam jam cicatricem, id. Agr. 3, 2, 4.—

B Trop., to excite afresh, renew: memoriam pulcherrimi facti, Cic. Phil. 3, 7, 18; cf.: rei publicae praeterita fata, id. Pis. 33, 82: animum memoria refricare coeperat, id. Sull. 6, 19: ut illa vetus fabula refricaretur, id. Cael. 30, 71: alicujus desiderium ac dolorem, id. Fam. 5, 17, 4: dolorem oratione, id. de Or. 2, 48, 199: admonitu refricatur amor, Ov. R. Am. 729: lamentationes, App. M. 4, p. 154, 4.—*

II Neutr., to break out afresh, appear again: crebro refricat lippitudo, Cic. Att. 10, 17, 2.

In the wild

refricabam Cicero, De Oratore 2.199
refricato Cato, De agri cultura 87
refricat Cicero, Philippicae 3.18
refricuisset Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 54
refricem Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.17.4
refricat Cicero, Letters to Atticus 10.17.2

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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