I.to boil or cook thoroughly, boil soft.
I. Lit.: “prandium,” Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 18: “bubulas carnes,” Plin. 23, 7, 64, § 127: “lens non bene percocta,” id. 22, 25, 70, § 142.—Prov.: “In digitis hodie percoquam quod ceperit,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 11.—
II. Transf.
B. To ripen: “mora percoquit uvas,” Ov. R. Am. 83: “sol percoquit fructus,” Sen. Ben. 7, 31, 3: “messem,” Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 8.—