Recoquo, récoquis, pen. cor. recoxi, recoctum, recóquere. Mar. To boyle or seeth againe. Recoquere, per translationem.To amend with studie.Quint. Se Apollonio Moloni reformandum ac velut recoquendum dedit.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-cŏquo, coxi, coctum, 3, v. a., to cook or boil over again.I.Lit.: Peliam, Cic. Sen. 23, 83; cf. of the same: fessos aetate parentes, Val. Fl. 6, 444: lana recocta (in dyeing), Sen. Ep. 71, 31: ceram (in the sun), Plin. 21, 14, 49, 84: Velabrensi massa recocta fumo, Mart. 11, 53, 10.—B.Transf., to prepare again by fire; to burn, melt, cast, or forge again, Plin. 16, 6, 8, 23: re coquunt patrios fornacibus enses, Verg. A. 7, 636; so, electrum aurumque, id. ib. 8, 624: spicula, Luc. 7, 148: ferrum, Flor. 3, 20, 6.— II.Trop.: (Cicero se) Apollonio Moloni formandum ac velut recoquendum dedit, to recast, remould, Quint. 12, 6, 7: Fuffitio seni recocto, youthful, hale, lusty (alluding to the fable of Pelias), Cat. 54, 5; so, scriba, Hor. S. 2, 5, 55: anus vino, Petr. Fragm. in Diom. p. 517 P.
