The corpus record — Latin

remulceo

remulceo · v. a

to stroke back

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Where it lives

Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

rĕ-mulcĕo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-mulcĕo, si, sum, 2, v. a.,

I to stroke back (poet. and rare).

I Lit.: caudam, i. e. to droop, Verg. A. 11, 812: aures, to stroke gently, App. M. 1, p. 103, 8: crines, id. Flor. 2, p. 350, 39.—

II Trop., to soothe: minas stimulataque corda remulce, Stat. Th. 8, 93: animos dulcissimis modulis, to delight, App. M. 5, p. 165, 8.

In the wild

remulceo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.2
remulsis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.16
remulce Statius, Thebais 8.93
remulcebant Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.15
remulcens Vergil, Aeneid 11.812
remulsis Apuleius, Florida 15

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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