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rĕ-călesco , lŭi, 3,
I.v. inch. n., to become warm (again), to grow warm (rare but class.): cum motu atque exercitatione recalescunt (corpora), * Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; id. Flor. 4, 2, 53; Prud. Psych. 59.—
II. Trop.: “mens recalescit,” Ov. R. Am. 629: “recalescere ex integro (in scribendo) et resumere impetum fractum omissumque,” Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 6.
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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    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7.9.6
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.10
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