I.to till or cultivate again, to work anew.
I. Lit.: “desertam terram,” Liv. 27, 5: “spargere humo post tempora longa recultae,” Ov. M. 5, 647: “agros,” Val. Fl. 7, 68: “metalla intermissa,” Liv. 39, 24.— *
B. To inhabit again, to revisit a place: “nemo libenter recolit, qui laesit locum,” Phaedr. 1, 18, 1.—
II. Trop., to exercise or practise again, to resume, renew.
A. In gen.: certum est, antiqua recolam et servibo mihi, I'll drive the old trade again, i. e. will lead again my old way of life, Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 3: “eas artes, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus,” Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2; cf.: “ad haec studia recolenda,” id. Arch. 6, 13: dignitatem, id. ap. Non. 439, 2: “ingenia nostra meditatione,” Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 7: “avitum decus,” Tac. A. 3, 72: “Galbae imagines,” to set up again, id. H. 3, 7: “adulescentulos paternis sacerdotiis,” to reinvest, id. ib. 1, 77: diem dapibus, to celebrate, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 262.—
B. In partic.
1. To think over, recall to mind, reflect upon, consider: “haec ego quom ago Cum meo animo et recolo,” Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 25; cf.: “quae si tecum ipse recolis,” Cic. Phil. 13, 20, 45: “sua facta pectore,” Cat. 63, 45: “hoc tua, nam recolo, quondam germana canebat,” Ov. H. 5, 113; “Hilar. Trin. 1, 17: haec in corde,” Vulg. Thren. 3, 21.—
2. To contemplate, survey: inclusas animas ... Lustrabat studio recolens omnemque suorum Forte recensebat numerum, * Verg. A. 6, 681.
