rē^-frīgesco — Lewis & Short
rē^-frīgesco, frixi, 3,
I v. inch. n., to grow cold or cool (class.; most freq. in the trop. sense, and in Cic.).
I Lit.:
ubi id vinum refrixerit, in dolium refundito,Cato, R. R. 105:
cor vulnere laesum refrixit,Ov. M. 12, 422:
ager,Col. 2, 15, 2:
plaga per auras,Lucr. 4, 703:
sanguis vel calescit vel refrigescit,Cels. 4, 3. —
II Trop., to grow cold or remiss; to abate, grow stale, lose interest; to fail, flag in strength or zeal:
illud crimen de nummis caluit re recenti, nunc in causā refrixit,Cic. Planc. 23, 55:
calor ille cogitationis, qui scribendi morā refrixit, recepit ex integro vires,Quint. 10, 3, 6:
belli apparatus refrigescent,Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30:
res,Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 25 Ruhnk.; cf.:
res interpellata bello,Cic. Att. 1, 19, 4:
hasta Caesaris,to go on coldly, to flag, id. Fam. 9, 10, 3 Manut.;
15, 17, 2: oratio,Quint. 4, 3, 2; cf.:
imagines mora stili,id. 10, 7, 14:
sortes plane,i. e. have gone quite out of use, Cic. Div. 2, 41, 87:
quod de Pompeio Caninius agit, sane quam refrixit,id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5:
cum Romae a judiciis forum refrixerit,has a cessation from judicial business, id. Att. 1, 1, 2: Domitius cum Messalā certus esse videbatur;
Scaurus refrixerat,had given up, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 3; cf.
Memmius,id. Att. 4, 18, 3:
charitas multorum,Vulg. Matt. 24, 12.