LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

revomo

revomo · v. a

to spew

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What it meant

rĕ-vŏmo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-vŏmo, ŭi, 3, v. a.,

I to spew or vomit forth again; to vomit up, disgorge (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I Lit.: salsos pectore fluctus, Verg. A. 5, 182: plumam avibus devoratis (dracones), Plin. 10, 72, 92, § 197: haustum mare (Charybdis), Sen. Thyest. 581; cf. Sil. 2, 308; and of the same: vorat haec raptas revomitque carinas, Ov. M. 13, 731; cf.: umorque aquae sursum revomit atque remittit (tigna), Lucr. 2, 199: spolia assidue mota ventis maria revomebant, cast up again, Flor. 4, 11, 7: at miseri fluctant revomentes aequora nautae, Sil. 10, 326.—*
II Trop.: cum sanguine et spiritu male partam revomuere victoriam, Flor. 2, 10, 3.

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