I.to wash a corpse, and prepare it for the funeral pile (ante- and post-class.): pollingo, περιστέλλω νεκρόν, σιροπλόκω, ταριχεύω, ἐνταφιάζω, Gloss. Philox.: “quia mihi pollinctor dixit, qui eum pollinxerat,” Plaut. Poen. prol. 63; App. Flor. p. 362, 27: “figmenta hominum mortuorum curate pollincta,” Amm. 19, 1, 10.—Transf., of an old man near his grave: “pollinctum corpus,” Val. Max. 7, 7, 4; cf.: “voluptas fucata aut medicamentis pollincta,” Sen. Vit. Beat. 7, 2.
pollingo , nxi, nctum, 3, v. a.,
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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