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recoquere [CL] 1 to boil again, to reconstitute by cooking, (in quot. transf., p. ppl., w. ref. to myth of Medea and Pelias) youthful, having a new lease of life. sex, inquam, doctos discumque rotare recoctos / ilico presentant alii R. Cant. Malch. II 156. 2 to reheat, subject again to fire, to remelt (metal). sicut recoctum aurum in fornace detrimentum non sustinet Pull. Sent. 827D; captat opes Crassus, ut eas convertat in aurum, / et recoquit purum, possit ut esse putum J. Sal. Enth. Phil. 1172.

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