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per-cŏquo , xi, ctum, 3, v. a.,
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.
A. To heat: “umorem,” Lucr. 6, 858: “terram,” id. 5, 1254.—
B. To ripen: “mora percoquit uvas,” Ov. R. Am. 83: “sol percoquit fructus,” Sen. Ben. 7, 31, 3: “messem,” Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 8.—
C. To scorch, to blacken by the heat of the sun: “nigra virum percocto saecla colore,” Lucr. 6, 722.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Plautus, Rudens, 4.1
    • Plautus, Mercator, 3.3
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1254
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.858
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.722
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 5.6.8
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 7.31.3
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